On 9/5/07, Johnn Tan linuxweb@gmail.com wrote:
semi linux wrote:
Sorry, should have specified - I'm using kickstart to load my machine(s).
On 9/4/07, semi linux linuxsemi@gmail.com wrote:
Is there some kind of caveat to using the rootpw --iscrypted directive and then specifying a graphical install?
I'm able to do this with no prompts.
I always seem to get the prompt coming up... If I remove the graphical and do a text install, it works fine and if I remove the --iscrypted and put a plain-text password in there, it works as well.
What do you mean "remove the graphical" -- as far as I can tell, it's graphical by default. The absence of the word "text" means it'll do a graphical install.
When you get a prompt, what is it asking for? Do you have a line for "auth" or "authconfig"? (In general, make sure you have all the required directives like "lang", "keyboard", etc.)
johnn
"remove the graphical" means switch it back to "text".
Here is the relevant section of the kickstart: (does prompt for pw):
lang en_US keyboard us timezone America/Los_Angeles --utc rootpw textpw # rootpw --iscrypted *********************** reboot logging --level=debug graphical # text install autostep --autoscreenshot driverdisk --type=ext2 --source=http://****/3w9650SE-x86_64-9.4.1.1.img url --url http://*****/CentOS5 bootloader --location=mbr --append="crashkernel=256M@16M" zerombr clearpart --all --initlabel part swap --recommended --ondisk=sda part /boot --fstype "ext3" --ondisk=sda --size 200 part / --fstype "ext3" --ondisk=sda --size 100000 auth --useshadow --enablemd5 network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --hostname=temp --onboot=yes --noipv6 firewall --disabled selinux --disabled xconfig --defaultdesktop=gnome --startxonboot --resolution=1024x768 --depth=32
If I uncomment these lines and re-comment their counterparts, then is prompts. - The prompt is the default password prompt. - The auth line is in there. - I don't necessarily need graphical but it's a whole lot nicer due to the screenshots provided
Any other hints or suggestions?