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 -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________