On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Ken Teh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I've never done one of these before so I really can't help.  I usually serve
> my kickstart via nfs in which case I want the network manager to set up the
> nic with dhcp.  If the machine is to be a server, I will override the
> network config in the kickstart.
>
> My guess is that you have to mount the boot.iso image that's distributed
> with SL6x, read-write, on a loopback, and copy your ks.cfg file to it.  That
> is, the boot.iso image needs to be modified.  It's not enough to to copy
> write the iso and the ks.cfg to the usb key.
>
> Or you need to modify the initrd image that's on the boot.iso image.  It's
> not clear from the documentation which root (/) it refers to - the syslinux
> image or the initrd image.  My guess is it's the initrd image.
>
> Is this what you did?

I've never done a kickstart install with the ks file on a USB but it's
a valid installation method using "ks=partition:/sl.cfg" on the kernel
line. There shouldn't be any need to mess with the installer or its
initrd.