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took me a few days to finish off and tidy this up.
The attached describes the following: how to create a bootable USB disk, and
configure it such that you can have
- multiple ks files you boot
- those ks files can be for different version of RHEL
The secret (as described in the attached howto), is to copy the isolinux
directory from the boot.iso of each release that you need to support.
the respective kickstart file has the following for the install method:
harddrive --partition /dev/sda1 --dir RHEL4-U2-isos
where the mentioned dir is relative to the the base of the partition mentioned,
and contains iso images (installs from hard drive doesn't support installing
from a laid out tree).
enjoy,
best rgds,
-Greg Hosler
On 13-Feb-2006 (See http://Feb-2006.ora-code.com) Greg Hosler wrote:
> What I did, was I created a bootable usb disk, and I have grub entries that
> allow me to chose one of multiple boot options. Each boot entry will point to
> it's separate boot isolinux directory for it's respective kernel & initrd
> (which, of course need to match the respective install tree, but you pass the
> pointer to the install tree in the kickstart file. since the boot entry
> points
> to the kickstart file, this is not a problem...)
>
> I'm in the process of writing up how I set this up for some overseas
> collegues,
> if you want, I'll forward you a copy.
>
> best rgds,
>
> -Greg
>
> On 13-Feb-2006 (See http://Feb-2006.ora-code.com) bob flynn wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am kickstarting a variety of machines, and I have the following issue.
>>
>> My kickstart works as follows;
>>
>> Maintain NFS server with ISO images of distributions available.
>> Kickstart file and any pre/postscripts available on NFS server.
>>
>> Boot from CD1 from whatever distribution version I intend to install.
>> Once at the linux prompt, specifying the kickstart file and a NFS
>> installation and off I go.
>>
>> 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 ?
>>
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