[ale] Install from a hard drive.

Matthew simontek at gmail.com
Tue May 29 18:02:51 EDT 2012


Good to know about the ext2 issue. Also I wanted to go with
external's, but its too late to order them.

On 5/29/12, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah. An external DVD drive maybe an easy solution. Molasses in winter slow
> over a USB port but pretty easy and reliable. For that matter, a typical
> USB thumbdrive is plenty large enough and has no moving parts to worry
> about.
>
> Hmm. so it's not getting to the repo section in a kickstart as it's not
> even _doing_ the kickstart.
>
> If the ks.cfg file is on the repo hard drive, the partition that holds it
> must be either vfat or ext2. anaconda will NOT fall back ext3 to ext2 so
> that can be a fail point.
>
> You can also tweak to opening menu to not launch the regular installation
> and go straight to a kickstart installation.
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Matthew <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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> James P. Kinney III
>
> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> - *2011 Noam Chomsky
>
> http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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