[ale] Install from a hard drive.

[Matthew]

well certain machines have issues installing from cd, and the environment
these machines are being deployed to, sand kills the optic drives fast.
Also it's a HUGE IA issue if I try to connect these machines to the net. I
am sure I will figure it out this week, then write a how-to on my linux
blog.


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> how are you trying to load it? Using a http repo is easiest but requires
> networking.*****
> * local hard drive with repo _should_ work with:
> repo=hd:<dev>:<path>
> where <dev> is sda3, hda1, etc and path is full path from top of partition
> tree.
>
> note: some version of anaconda changed the <dev> and required /dev/sda3
> and the next release reverted back on next update (or was that reversed?)
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Matthew <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a custom distro, built off of RHEL 5.8, I am trying to set it
>> to install from the hard drive. For some reason, its ignoring my
>> kickstarts, and firing up a reg rhel install. What could I be missing?
>>
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