In article <2181C5F19DD0254692452BFF3EAF1D6803940E22 at rsys005a.comm.ad.roke.co.uk>, Plant, Dean <dean.plant at roke.co.uk> wrote: > > If like me you have never had to mess with the stage2.img file to fix > installations issues, below shows what is required. > > cd ~ > wget http://yourwebserver/centos5-dvd/images/stage2.img > mkdir tmp > mount -t squashfs -o loop stage2.img ./tmp > cd tmp > vi ./usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py # comment out > dispatch.skipStep("network") at around line 876 or use Ray's patch. hmm, isn't this editing the file on a read-only file system? > mkdir ../new-stage2 > tar cf - . | ( cd ../new-stage2/ ; tar xf - . ) I suspect here is where you need to cd ../new-stage2 and edit kickstart.py > cd .. > yum -y install squashfs-tools > mksquashfs ./new-stage2/ stage2.img.new > > Now replace the stage2.img file on the web server with the > stage2.img.new file, renamed to stage2.img of course. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org