kickstart problem

Jay Turner jkt at redhat.com
Wed Feb 11 12:57:58 UTC 2004


On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:44:35PM +0100, Andreas Sartori wrote:
> hey guys,
> 
> i have small problem. until now we have used rh9 kickstart in here,
> but now i have to use fedora.
> i made new kickstart files, and just exchanged the old vmlinuz and 
> initrd with
> the fedora PXE ones. booting from the network is fine, but just after 
> this, the client
> wants to download a updates.img file from my server. the file is not 
> there, and there
> is no such file in the core distribution.

If the install actually failing?  Anaconda will automatically look for
"updates.img" in the RedHat/base directory.  This is functionality which
allows for running updated code without having to rebuild anaconda and the
installation media itself.  There's not quite enough detail in what you
posted to understand exactly what behavior you are seeing.

- jkt

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