Quoting "Plant, Dean" <dean.plant at roke.co.uk>: > I am trying to use kickstart for automated builds from a DVD. Some of > the machines have DVD's drives and some have CDRom drives only. With the > CDRom only machines I would like to plug in an external DVD drive via > USB and use this to kickstart. > > The DVD only machines work correctly with a isolinux.cfg as > > label test > kernel vmlinuz > append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ks=cdrom:/test-ks.cfg > > Machines with a internal CDRom drive and the external USB DVD do not > find the kickstart so I figure that I need to change the > ks=cdrom:/test-ks.cfg to something else. > > I have tried the following with no success > > label test2 > kernel vmlinuz > append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ks=cdrom1:/test-ks.cfg > > To save me producing lots of coasters can anyone tell me what the > "ks=cdrom" should be changed to. Boot into rescue from USB DVD drive, and see what device it gets assigned. For example, my DVD drive appears as /dev/scd0. So in my case, something like "ks=hd:scd0:/test-ks.cfg" to work (haven't tested it). Note that depending on actuall hardware configuration, your external DVD drive might appear under different names on different machines (for example /dev/scd0 on one machine, and /dev/scd1 on another machine). For more info, see: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-startinginstall.html To avoid coasters, use DVD-RW, DVD+RW or DVD-RAM when experimenting... -- See Ya' later, alligator! http://www.8-P.ca/