Fedora Core 4 Kickstart Install Fails
 

I am trying to setup an easy to use kickstart procedure.
I am having two problems.
1. Running kickstart from a FC-4 boot CD seems to fail parsing the packages.
at the boot prompt I am using: linux ks=//someurl/ks.cfg

The exact same command with a FC-3 boot CD works.
I am installing FC-4 via ftp

2. Sometimes I don't have web access available, and so would like to load
the ks.cfg file from a usb flash-drive. It works just fine from floppy.
linux ks=floppy
but we have started buying systems without floppy drives.
linux ks=hd:sdc:/ks.cfg
fails. the /dev/sdc1 device does not exist.
why doesn't it create it?
I can see it probing the device and seeing that is is sdc1
but the install fails because the device does not exist, so it can't mount it.

Same problem ...
 

Have you found any solution yet?
:confused:
thx

Fedora Core 4 Kickstart Install Fails
 

I don't know if this will help you, but it has worked for me.

I have a machine with no floppy drive and only a single sata drive. I put a kickstart file, called net.ks, on a usb drive. On boot, I use the following command to use the kickstart file:

linux ks=hd:sdb1:/net.ks

The sata drive uses /dev/sda, so the flash drive then becomes /dev/sdb and I want to use the partition on it, thus the sdb1.