On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Ken Teh <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've never done one of these before so I really can't help. I usually serve > my kickstart via nfs in which case I want the network manager to set up the > nic with dhcp. If the machine is to be a server, I will override the > network config in the kickstart. > > My guess is that you have to mount the boot.iso image that's distributed > with SL6x, read-write, on a loopback, and copy your ks.cfg file to it. That > is, the boot.iso image needs to be modified. It's not enough to to copy > write the iso and the ks.cfg to the usb key. > > Or you need to modify the initrd image that's on the boot.iso image. It's > not clear from the documentation which root (/) it refers to - the syslinux > image or the initrd image. My guess is it's the initrd image. > > Is this what you did?
I've never done a kickstart install with the ks file on a USB but it's a valid installation method using "ks=partition:/sl.cfg" on the kernel line. There shouldn't be any need to mess with the installer or its initrd.
