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Re: Kickstart install can't see DVD         

Group: comp.os.linux.setup · Group Profile
Author: Nico Kadel-Garcia
Date: May 9, 2008 16:08

jnojr wrote:
> I'm trying to create a bootable DVD with RHEL4u5 and my kickstart
> script
> to perform an unattended install.
>
> My image boots and sees the ks.cfg file just fine. However, it quickly
> says:

Use CentOS: they were much better about providing bootable DVD's, and kept
their DVD building tools up-to-date. (I rewrote their tool for the weird
layout of RHEL 5 and sent both RedHat and CentOS the modifications.)
> The Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD was not found in any of your CDROM
> drives. Please insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD and press OK to
> retry.
>
> Googling gives me a bunch of responses that say "You didn't copy the
> ..discinfo file". But I did! And it's contents are identical to a
> working
> image:
>
> 1177148299.639333
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
> i386
> 1,2,3,4,5
> RedHat/base
> RedHat/RPMS
> RedHat/pixmaps
>
> Switching to vt3 shows:
>
> * starting to STEP_URL
> * trying to mount CD device hdc
> * trying to mount CD device hdc
>
>
> vt4 shows:
>
> <7>libata version 2.00 loaded.
> <3>FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> <6>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdc.
> <4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev hdc.
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