John Summerfield wrote:
> Troy Dawson wrote:
>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>> In case you haven't noticed, this is causing some grief:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461526
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There's a crude hack here:
>>> http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-15687
>>>
>>> Basically, there are problems setting timezone in kickstart for some 
>>> users.
>>>
>>>
>> Works for me. :)
>> Er .. but that is because my timezone is one of the ones that works.
>>
>> Thanks for pointing this out John, I'm just expanding this so that 
>> people can search for it better.
>>
>> If you are setting a timezone during kickstart (and who wouldn't), it 
>> may, or may not work.
>> There is a bug in anaconda (the installer) so that certain time zones 
>> are missing, so the kickstart part of the installer doesn't understand 
>> them.
>>
>> Thanks again for pointing this out.
>> Troy
> 
> If harping on it helps, would mention that this problems with setting 
> timezone in ks exists in RHEL 5.3.
> 
> I've mentioned it here (and on CentOS) with the idea that the clones 
> might not stick _too_ closely to RHEL here.
> 
> 
> 

Connie already has looked into it and SL 5.3 Beta 2 should have a patch 
fixing this problem.
We already have patches in the installer for other things, so fixing an 
actual bug is no big deal for us. :)

Troy
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