Maybe it would be easier to prepare a boot floppy (bootdisk.img), to copy
the kickstart file there and then to modify 'syslinux.cfg' in the floppy.
In the kickstart you should have 'cdrom' to tell it to install from CDs.

If you would like to get the kickstart file from the web, I think that you
would have to make another floppy with network drives (drvnet.img)
and append the parameter 'dd' as well in 'sysconfig.cfg'.
I haven't tried this, but I think that it should work.

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 17:03, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I'm trying to create a SL303 install CD that will automatically do
> something like "linux ks=http://noc/ks.cfg" at the initial "boot:"
> prompt... here's my naive recipe...
>
>  # mount and clone the disc1...
>  mkdir /tmp/sl303.OLD /tmp/sl303.NEW
>  mount -o loop SL.303.093004.i386.disc1.iso /tmp/sl303.OLD
>  cd /tmp/sl303.OLD
>  tar -cf - . | (cd /tmp/sl303.NEW; tar -xpf -)
>
>  # change the isolinux.cfg...
>  vi /tmp/sl303.NEW/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
>  # ...add "ks=http://noc/ks.cfg" to the default (linux label) append
> line...
>
>  # make the iso...
>  VERSION=303.093004
>  BOOTIMG=isolinux/isolinux.bin
>  BOOTCAT=isolinux/boot.cat
>  BOOTOPTS="-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table"
>  DEST=UW-HEP.SL.$VERSION.i386.disc1.iso
>  mkisofs \
>    -A "$VERSION DISC1" -V "$VERSION" -R -l -v -J \
>    -x lost+found -c $BOOTCAT $BOOTOPTS \
>    -b $BOOTIMG -o $DEST sl303.NEW
>
> ...but the resulting CD does not boot!  I'm executing mkisofs the
> same was as the build script. [1]  Where am I going wrong??
>
> steve
> - - -
> systems & network guy
> high energy physics
> university of wisconsin
>
>  [1]
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/303/i386/SL/build/scripts/bu
>ildisoimages/subscripts/mkisoimage.disc1.sh