Troy Dawson wrote: > 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 I didn't think it would be. I posted the same info to CentOS-dev but haven't seen a response there, but I don't expect they will have a problem fixing it either. The surprise to me is that RH doesn't seem to intend to respin 5.3. I would be pretty unhappy if I were paying for this stuff and effected, and unsettled if paying and not affected. -- Cheers John -- spambait [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)