Hey everyone,

I know most of you use nfs or http for kickstart, but I'm trying to do a 
CD based one.  Basically, I have a backup cd I make of certain software 
and system configuration.  I'd like to make this CD bootable with a 
somewhat dynamic kickstart.

I've got a bootable CD working, the problem comes in when I try to work 
with any other files on the CD in conjunction with ks.cfg.
I've found that the %pre doesn't get parsed/evaluated until the actual 
SL DVD is inserted and mounted. 
Proven by:
%pre
mkdir -p /tmp/iso
mount /tmp/cdrom /tmp/iso
ls /tmp/iso >/tmp/iso.lst
umount /tmp/iso
(results in the contents of the SL DVD, not the original boot CD)

This means that all of the "support" files I'd like to use to 
generate/include in the ks.cfg are no longer accessible (they were on 
the original boot CD).

Does anyone have any insight or experience dealing with this type of 
situation?  Network is not an option.  At this point, it looks like I'll 
be tearing into the initrd and modifying the startup to populate the 
ramdisk, which I'm not keen on doing.

Cheers,
Mark

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Mr. Mark V. Stodola
Digital Systems Engineer

National Electrostatics Corp.
P.O. Box 620310
Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA
Phone: (608) 831-7600
Fax: (608) 831-9591