On Tue, 22 May 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:
> 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.
That worked too.
How did you build the tree at the nfs location. Was it a mirror of
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386/ or a exploded tree
from the iso images or something else?
You should also not have to pass the "askmethod" option as it asks by
default.
-Connie Sieh
>
> -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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