From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) Description of problem: I'm using Kickstart to install RedHat 7.2 from an install server. Of course, the date/time setting on the machine should be correct before files are created to get correct time stamp information. I tried to run "rdate 192.168.1.1" from the Kickstart %pre section (where 192.168.1.1 is the IP address of the install server), but this fails, because rdate is not available in the mini-root filesystem. Could rdate (or a different time synchronization mechanism) please added to the install image (of course this only makes sense for the network image)? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Perform Kickstart installation with network boot and an NFS install server. 2. In the %pre section, run rdate <IP-address-of-install-server> 3. Observe that rdate is not found, and the time on the client machine is not synchronized. Additional info:
I forgot to mention, that it would be also required to create a /etc/services file with the following line in it to make rdate work: time 37/tcp timserver
Anaconda-images is for the pixmaps, not boot images :) Reassigning.
Fixed in CVS
Time tracking values updated
Mass-closing lots of old bugs which are in MODIFIED (and thus presumed to be fixed). If any of these are still a problem, please reopen or file a new bug against the release which they're occurring in so they can be properly tracked.