On Tue, 22 May 2007, Howard Peng wrote:

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> Connie Sieh wrote:
>> 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?
>> 
> Connie,
>
> Boot CD from:
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386/images/boot.iso
>
> NFS location contains the iso image copied from:
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/iso/i386/
>
> This method had worked in SL44.

Yes it did.

In SL5 I am building the iso images with a program that 
rebuilds the install images.  So this has the side effect that you have to 
stay in the same "tree" to make this work.  All pieces have to come from 
either the ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386 tree or 
from the ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/iso/i386 tree. 
No mixing.

There should be a boot.iso in the images directory in the first iso from 
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/iso/i386/ .  Try using 
that one as your basis.

-Connie Sieh

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> Regards,
> Howard
>> 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
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>>>>> 
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