From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: To do a kickstart of an NFS install, with the ks on the install floppy, the sequence is as follows: 1) insert install floppy, boot system. 2) enter linux ks=floppy dd (dd is necessary due to the network drivers now being on a separate floppy) 3) when prompted, remove install floppy, insert drvnet floppy. 4) when asked if there are any more dd floppies, remove floppy and re-insert the install floppy BEFORE responding [NO]. failure to make sure that the floppy w/ the ks.cfg file is in the drive before responding will abort the kick start. one suggestion is to move any ks.cfg file from the install floppy into /tmp BEFORE prompting for the removal of the floppy, and insertion of the dd floppy. a 2nd suggestion is: when looking for the ks file, instead of aborting the kickstart, have a screen insert the floppy with ks.cfg into the drive and press [OK] to continue with teh kickstart, or press [CANCEL] to cancel the kickstart, and continue with a normal install. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Actual Results: kick start fails if the floppy w/ ks.cfg is not in the drive when it is expected to be in the drive. The new breakup of the install floppies, pretty much guarantees that this will be the case. Expected Results: prompt for the ks.cfg floppy. Additional info:
You can actually just boot with 'linux ks=floppy' and the kickstart config gets loaded off the floppy, you get prompted for the driver disk to get to the install source and you don't have to do any weird shuffling. Will look at making things a little more clear
Just to piggy back on this. I opened bug 97164 that kinda touches on this as well. We should be able to kickstart with one single disk. I modified the bootdisk.img and added my net driver manually. The installer bombs out when I try to force the load of the device via 'device eth 3c59x' in the ks.cfg. If I leave out that line, then I get prompted for the net driver and I select from the list without swapping floppy's. However ideally the installer shouldn't crash, but rather load the driver like it's suppose to and every thing is happy. Much like with 7.3 :) Just my 2 cents. A better option for kickstarts would be nice. I have to ask. Why was it changed away from the bootnet.img and boot.img? That seemed to work very well. - Mike
This is no longer relevant with changes to how you boot current releases.