thanks jeremy, i'll check that out shortly. and i think that some of the inconsistencies i've found are due to different versions, i'm working on a project right now that requires rh72 but some of the docs i've been using are written for rh80.
quick question: in my rh72 kickstart file i'm deselecting a couple of packages that other rpms require. as a result, the installer gives me the option of resolving the problem, ignoring the deps, or not installing packages with missing dependencies. how do i automatically select the last option in the ks.cfg file? i did not see this particular parameter in the docs. thanks jason On Sunday 16 February 2003 14:20, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 23:49, Jason Tower wrote: > > i have a motherboard (MSI-6368) with onboard trident blade video. if i > > try to install rh72 via nfs, it works beautifully. if i try to install > > by booting the CD the installer fails to start X. in both cases the > > video is detected properly, but the nfs method works while the CD method > > fails (it tries several times to start X using different servers before > > giving up and switching to text). not a show-stopper but curious > > nonetheless. > > You can look at /tmp/XFree86.log in the installer to see why it didn't > start. It is odd, though since the second stage between the two is > exactly the same. > > > and yes, kickstart is way cool (especially in conjunction with nfs), if > > poorly documented. the redhat docs don't always jive with their sample > > config which doesn't match up exactly with my redhat press sysadmin book > > which is out of sync with several examples i've seen on the web which > > only sort of match my actual working ks.cfg. but when it works it kicks > > big ol' booty. > > If you find cases where the docs don't match up with what works, please > file them in bugzilla -- I try to catch inaccuracies, but that doesn't > always mean we catch everything. Note that you should really be sure > that the version of the customization guide you're looking at matches > the version of Red Hat Linux you're trying to install -- kickstart is > slowly morphing so the docs tend to get slightly tweaked each release > accordingly. I try to keep everything nice and backwards compatible, > but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm bug-compatible :) > > Cheers, > > Jeremy > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
