On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:46 AM, j.e.aneiros <jesus.aneiros@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:23 PM, j.e.aneiros <jesus.aneiros@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I hope this is the right place for posting this question.
>> > I'm trying to perform an installation using kickstart and I having a
>> > hard
>> > time trying to disable NetworkManager during the time previous to the
>> > real
>> > installation, it says it is trying to configure eth0.
>> > I'm using a CDROM based installation with a kickstart file on a USB
>> > memory.
>> > The line I'm typing for the kernel is as follows:
>> > linux ks=hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg
>> > I also tried
>> > linux ks=hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg nonet noipv6
>> > But still getting the timeout popup message.
>> > I don't want any human intervention during the install, besides putting
>> > the
>> > CD in and taking it out.
>> > I need to have the network configured to access the machine via ssh
>> > after
>> > the reboot.
>>
>> Doesn't it time out?
>>
>> (Maybe a blank "ksdevice=" clause will do the trick?)
>
> I'll give it a try and let you know. Thanks Tom.

You might want to try "ksdevice=''" too. I haven't tried either so
these are shots in the dark.
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Sure. I think I'm gonna take a look on the Anaconda source code to try to find out what's happening in there. Any idea where I could find detailed information about the CD based booting process in Fedora? Sorry if it is a silly question but I'm relative new to this distro.

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