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On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Ken Teh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I've never done one of these before so I really can't help. I usually serve
> my kickstart via nfs in which case I want the network manager to set up the
> nic with dhcp. If the machine is to be a server, I will override the
> network config in the kickstart.
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> My guess is that you have to mount the boot.iso image that's distributed
> with SL6x, read-write, on a loopback, and copy your ks.cfg file to it. That
> is, the boot.iso image needs to be modified. It's not enough to to copy
> write the iso and the ks.cfg to the usb key.
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> Or you need to modify the initrd image that's on the boot.iso image. It's
> not clear from the documentation which root (/) it refers to - the syslinux
> image or the initrd image. My guess is it's the initrd image.
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> Is this what you did?
I've never done a kickstart install with the ks file on a USB but it's
a valid installation method using "ks=partition:/sl.cfg" on the kernel
line. There shouldn't be any need to mess with the installer or its
initrd.
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