 | | | cd kickstarting question | cd kickstarting question 2006-02-13 - By inode0
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On 2/13/06, bob flynn <bob.flynn@(protected)> wrote:
> The problem
>
> I have to boot from the 1st disk of whatever distribution I am using to
> use the NFS copy of the ISO image of the same distribution. This is a
> pain if I have to keep a set of CD's simply to boot to a kickstart. An
> exampple. If I am looking to installed Red Hat Enterprise WS 3.0 U2,
> then I have to boot from disk 1 of Red Hat Enterprise WS 3.0 U2,
> anything else and it will complain. So I am looking for workarounds.
>
> Possible solutions.
>
> 1. PXE and ignore the requirement to boot from CD to start. The downside
> is I am supporting some boxes which are not PXE enabled.
>
> 2. A generic boot disk which will allow me to kickstart without having
> the boot disk having to match the NFS version of whatever I am
> kickstarting via NFS ?
>
> This would be a reasonable solution ( extra points for the image
> supporting booting via USB, for those machines for which a USB boot is
> simplier ).
>
> Ideas ?
I tried chasing down this problem a while back. I recall that when an
old boot.iso image or equivalent is used the logs showed it was
looking for an update image on the server to, I presume, be used to
correct diffs between the versions. This update image appears to no
longer be provided by Red Hat with newer updates so the installation
bails.
I did not check whether the floppy/usb boot image also suffered from
this at the time. We have no happy solution other than updating our
boot media at the same time we update our install trees.
John
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