Hello All:
I've recently had to provision some RHEL and CentOS VMWare instances. There was no network connectivity so I had to use a kickstart floppy and DVD iso rather than installing from our repository. To create the floppy I used the following:
As root: dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.flp bs=1k count=360 mkfs.vfat floppy.flp mount -o loop floppy.flp /mnt/floppy cp base_kickstart.ks /mnt/floppy/ks.cfg umount /mnt/floppy
It works, but now I need to automate the process and have to do with without root access. Is there a way to create a floppy iso with a single file without root access? I looked at fuseiso, but it appears that it still requires some root permissions.
Kwan Lowe wrote:
As root: dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.flp bs=1k count=360 mkfs.vfat floppy.flp mount -o loop floppy.flp /mnt/floppy cp base_kickstart.ks /mnt/floppy/ks.cfg umount /mnt/floppy
It works, but now I need to automate the process and have to do with without root access. Is there a way to create a floppy iso with a single file without root access? I looked at fuseiso, but it appears that it still requires some root permissions.
Have a look at mtools (part of CentOS) - you can do something similar as above as a non-root user:
mformat -C -i floppy.flp -f 360 :: mcopy -i floppy.flp base_kickstart.ks ::ks.cfg
James Pearson
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM, James Pearson james-p@moving-picture.com wrote:
Have a look at mtools (part of CentOS) - you can do something similar as above as a non-root user:
mformat -C -i floppy.flp -f 360 :: mcopy -i floppy.flp base_kickstart.ks ::ks.cfg
Well, hey now! That works nicely. Thank you!
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James Pearson -
Kwan Lowe