Hi all,

I am installing linux via http with a kickstart file and I am having trouble getting the %include directive to work. Here is the set up:

at the boot prompt I type this:

linux ks=http://10.10.10.52/ks.cfg

Which points the installation to the kickstart file which lives on my webserver. Once the installation actually starts it reads the kickstart file just fine, and normally installs all of the packages over http from the same location as the kickstart file.

However, I tried changing the list of packages to this:

%include /var/build/linux/packages (which exists and is in the same dir as my ks.cfg)

but I get an error during install that that file does not exist. I have also tried

%include ./packages
and just
%include packages

But I keep getting the error. Can anyone who has dealt with this give me some advice as to how to tweak the include syntax to make it work? Thanks!

update:

another line I tried was:

%include http://10.10.10.52/packages

Since that is how I call the kickstart script.

Any ideas?

I also finally found this missive in the rh7.3 docs:

Kickstart

There is a new directive named %include which can be used with kickstart. This allows you to include the contents of other files as a part of your kickstart configuration. These files should either exist in the installer's initial ramdisk (initrd) or be generated dynamically in the %pre section of the kickstart configuration.

Given this, and the fact that I am booting from a cd, and then installing via http, where should I put the files I want to include?

Thanks.