[ale] running an FC6 Kickstart install?

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Wed Jan 3 12:18:44 EST 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:54 -0500, Warren Myers wrote:
> Good morning.
> 
> I'm trying to get a kickstart config file sitting on my web server (or
> nfs) to actually install under FC6. So far I have the
> configurator-generated .cfg sitting in my home directory. However,
> when booting off the DVD and using the 'linux ks=
> http://server/path/ks.cfg' boot parameters, Anaconda repeatedly tries
> to just do a default install from the DVD. 
> 
> Obviously, this is quite irritating, as the Kickstart tool is
> theoretically supposed to handle 'hands-off' installations. 
> 
> Any ideas as to what might be causing this, or what I'm doing wrong?

The format looks correct to me. Verify you can get the ks.cfg file with
another system and make sure the line is exactly

linux ks=http://server/path/ks.cfg

with no extra spaces between anything.


> 
> Thanks
> 
> Warren
> 
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