On Fri, 18 May 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2007, Howard Peng wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Question related to this topic:
>>
>> I usually download and burn the boot.iso, manually test the installation
>> using the boot cd before rolling out kickstart.
>>
>> I downloaded and burned boot.iso from
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386/images, booted a
>> machine using linux askmethod option, specify the nfs image location.
>>
>> Error message:
>> "The Scientific Linux installation tree in that directory does not seem
>> to match your boot media."
>>
>> I assumed the boot.iso should work without any modification, any
>> suggestions?
>
> As long as you got the boot.iso from the ftp tree and that is what you are
> trying to install from.(could be nfs of course)
>
> I will test this . We do a test install before we ship so this should
> work.
I downloaded and burned to cd-r the image at
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386/images/boot.iso
I the did a ftp install from
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386/
and it worked fine(except for the slow startup time for ftp)
Now testing a nfs install now.
-connie sieh
>
> -Connie Sieh
>>
>> Regards,
>> Howard
>>
>> ______________________________________________________
>> Howard Peng, AScT, B.Eng., EIT | Systems Administrator
>> Physics and Astronomy | University of Victoria
>> 1.250.721.7741 | [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>
>> Connie Sieh wrote:
>>> On Fri, 18 May 2007, Devin Bougie wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> With SL4, we used the the following procedure (for example) to create
>>>> a kickstart boot CD from the first SL4 installation disk. Our
>>>> kickstart file installs from our local mirror via http.
>>>> mount -o loop /tmp/SL.43.050806.i386.disc1.iso /mnt/tmp
>>>> mkdir /tmp/SL43
>>>> cp -r /mnt/tmp/isolinux /tmp/SL43
>>>> cd /tmp/SL43
>>>> cp /tmp/ks.cfg isolinux/ks.cfg
>>>> edit the isolinux.cfg file to automatically start the kickstart
>>>> installation.
>>>> change timeout 600 to timeout 1
>>>> add ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg to the end of the "append" line of the first
>>>> "label linux" section
>>>> mkisofs -o /tmp/SL43.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot -
>>>> boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -v -T isolinux/
>>>>
>>>> When we do the same procedure with SL5, we get the following error:
>>>> "The Scientific Linux installation tree in that directory does not
>>>> seem to match your boot media."
>>>
>>> A check is done to make sure that the boot media matches the "install
>>> files". The check is between the file .discinfo and the .buildstamp
>>> file in the initrd.
>>>
>>> I assume you are installing from a "mirror" of the
>>> ftp.scientificlinux.org site.
>>>
>>> The .buildstamp(in initrd) and .discinfo (in top level dir) have to
>>> "agree"
>>>
>>> So you probably need to get the .discinfo file from your "install
>>> tree" and put it on your new iso image.
>>>
>>> In SL4.x I did not rebuild the "install images" for the iso's. Since
>>> I am using a different program for SL5 they get rebuilt.
>>>
>>>
>>> -Connie Sieh
>>>>
>>>> We get the same error regardless of which SL mirror we use. However,
>>>> we can install from our local mirror by using "linux askmethod" and
>>>> the normal SL5 installation CD.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>> Devin
>>>>
>>>> ------
>>>> Devin Bougie
>>>> Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>
>>
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