Greetings.  I think we've straightened out the kinks in our PXE
installation for SL 3.0.1.  Flushed with success, I figured we might as
well move on to SL 3.0.2.  We immediately ran into trouble: I couldn't
find any kernel or RAM disk for pxeboot in the 3.0.2 tree.

In the tree for SL 3.0.1 we had:

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[root@ucd-host pxeboot]# pwd
/SL/3.0.1/images/pxeboot

[root@ucd-host pxeboot]# ls
README  initrd.img  vmlinuz

[root@ucd-host pxeboot]# cat README
The files in this directory are useful for booting a machine via PXE.

The following files are available:
vmlinuz - the BOOT kernel used for the installer
initrd.img - an initrd with support for all install methods and
     drivers supported for installation of Red Hat Linux
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On the other hand, here's the situation for 3.0.2:

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[root@ucd-host 3.0.2]# pwd
/SL/3.0.2

[root@ucd-host 3.0.2]# find . -name '*[pP][xX][eE]*' -ls
  33813   92 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        86079 Jun  2 20:00
./SL/RPMS/pxe-0.1-36.i386.rpm
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To construct the /SL/3.0.2 tree I downloaded the four 3.0.2 ISO files from:

     ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/302/iso/i386/

I then mounted each one in turn as a "loop" device:

     mount -o loop SL.302.062904.i386.disc1.iso /mnt/disk

and then just "tarred" the contents to the /SL/3.0.2/ directory:

     cd /mnt/disk
     tar xvf - .  | (cd /SL/3.0.2; tar xvfp -)

I then umounted /mnt/disk, mounted the second ISO, etc. (lather, rinse,
repeat).  I don't see how this could have missed any files, but if I'm
overlooking the obvious, please let me know.

I tried to fool the installer by using the PXE kernel and RAM disk from
the 3.0.1 distribution.  I got only a very short way into the
installation before I got the error message:

     The Scientific Linux installation
     tree in that directory does not
     seem to match your boot media.

Stupid install trick No. 2: I tried using the kernel and RAM disk from
the .../3.0.2/isolinux directory for the PXE boot.  That gave a series
of obscure (to me) anaconda errors, which I won't bother to duplicate here.

What am I missing?  Thanks.

                            - Mike
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Michael Hannon            mailto:[log in to unmask]
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University of California  530.752.4717 FAX
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