[CentOS] kickstart ks.cfg file on USB devices

Fri Apr 11 19:36:00 UTC 2008
John <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 12:24 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008, John wrote:
> >On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 12:18 -0600, Milton Calnek wrote:
> >> findfs comes to mind.
> >> 
> >> other than that...
> >> fdisk -l | grep 
> >> 
> >> Bill Campbell wrote:
> >> > Is there an easy way to specify the proper device location for
> >> > the kickstart configuration file if it is on a USB flash or USB
> >> > floppy drive?  Depending on the hard disk configuration they
> >> > might by /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.
> >> > 
> >> > On SuSE'autoyast instalattions, the system searches all available
> >> > devices for an ``info'' configuration file.  Does CentOS 5.x do
> >> > something similar to find a ``ks.cfg'' file?
> >
> >"ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg" Specify it at the command prompt at boot time. You
> >may have to substitute the drive you have your Kick Start file in.....
> 
> That's a no brainer, but when I'm testing various ks.cfg files,
> it's far quicker to be able to edit a file on a USB device than
> to burn a new CD.

Explain exactly what you are trying to do? You can respin the media and
specify that in systl.conf to hunt for ks file??

> 
> Bill
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