Hi,

This is a little off topic but does anyone have experience 
using the Red Hat Kickstart feature?

Basically I installed a Red Hat 6.0 i386 on a desktop.
I ran "mkkickstart --nonet --nox >& ks.cfg".
Then I commented out the config of the mouse (not all ps/2).
Then I copied it to my boot floppy via "mcopy ks.cfg a:/KS.CFG"
Then I changed my SYSLINUX.CFG to have kickstart be the default.
My target clones are laptops and desktops.

When I start it up, it reads the kickstart file off the floppy.
At least I think it does because it mounts it as vfat then umounts it.
Then it detects the pcmcia device and then tries to mount the floppy
as type ext2, expecting the pcmcia supplemental disk I suppose.
Is there an undocumented config line to turn off trying to install
the pcmcia drivers for install?

Included are my ks.cfg and syslinux.cfg files.

Thanks,
Tuan

default ks
prompt 1
timeout 600
display boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 general.msg
F3 expert.msg
F4 rescue.msg
F5 kickit.msg
F6 param.msg
label linux
  kernel vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.img local
label rescue
  kernel vmlinuz
  append rescue root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1
label expert
  kernel vmlinuz
  append expert initrd=initrd.img local
label ks
  kernel vmlinuz
  append ks initrd=initrd.img local
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