On Tue, 22 May 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Howard Peng wrote:
Dear all,
Question related to this topic:
I usually download and burn the boot.iso, manually test the installation
using the boot cd before rolling out kickstart.
I downloaded and burned boot.iso from
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386/images, booted a
machine using linux askmethod option, specify the nfs image location.
Error message:
"The Scientific Linux installation tree in that directory does not seem
to match your boot media."
I assumed the boot.iso should work without any modification, any
suggestions?
As long as you got the boot.iso from the ftp tree and that is what you are
trying to install from.(could be nfs of course)
I will test this . We do a test install before we ship so this should
work.
I downloaded and burned to cd-r the image at
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386/images/boot.iso
I the did a ftp install from
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386/
and it worked fine(except for the slow startup time for ftp)
Now testing a nfs install now.
That worked too.
How did you build the tree at the nfs location. Was it a mirror of
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386/ or a exploded tree
from the iso images or something else?
You should also not have to pass the "askmethod" option as it asks by
default.
-Connie Sieh
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-connie sieh
-Connie Sieh
Regards,
Howard
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Howard Peng, AScT, B.Eng., EIT | Systems Administrator
Physics and Astronomy | University of Victoria
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Connie Sieh wrote:
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Devin Bougie wrote:
Hi All,
With SL4, we used the the following procedure (for example) to create
a kickstart boot CD from the first SL4 installation disk. Our
kickstart file installs from our local mirror via http.
mount -o loop /tmp/SL.43.050806.i386.disc1.iso /mnt/tmp
mkdir /tmp/SL43
cp -r /mnt/tmp/isolinux /tmp/SL43
cd /tmp/SL43
cp /tmp/ks.cfg isolinux/ks.cfg
edit the isolinux.cfg file to automatically start the kickstart
installation.
change timeout 600 to timeout 1
add ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg to the end of the "append" line of the first
"label linux" section
mkisofs -o /tmp/SL43.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot -
boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -v -T isolinux/
When we do the same procedure with SL5, we get the following error:
"The Scientific Linux installation tree in that directory does not
seem to match your boot media."
A check is done to make sure that the boot media matches the "install
files". The check is between the file .discinfo and the .buildstamp
file in the initrd.
I assume you are installing from a "mirror" of the
ftp.scientificlinux.org site.
The .buildstamp(in initrd) and .discinfo (in top level dir) have to
"agree"
So you probably need to get the .discinfo file from your "install
tree" and put it on your new iso image.
In SL4.x I did not rebuild the "install images" for the iso's. Since
I am using a different program for SL5 they get rebuilt.
-Connie Sieh
We get the same error regardless of which SL mirror we use. However,
we can install from our local mirror by using "linux askmethod" and
the normal SL5 installation CD.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Devin
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Devin Bougie
Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
