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SubjectRe: RedHat 5.1 Kickstart
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Matt Hyne <Matthew.Hyne@tip.csiro.au> writes:

> Has anyone got the RedHat 5.1 kickstart going yet ? I have been trying
> for the last two weeks without success and would really like to hear from
> anyone who has got it working.


This isn't really kernel related, but if you have problems with
kickstart on a floppy, this is a bug that I have reported to RedHat.
It doesn't seem to show up on their bug tracking list though. :-(

If you know your way around making an initrd.img etc, this patch
fixes the problem (apply in redhat-5.1/i386/misc/src):

--- install/install.c.orig Tue Jun 9 15:32:22 1998
+++ install/install.c Tue Jun 9 15:32:34 1998
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@
char buf[4096];
int i;

- if ((outfd = open("/tmp/ks.cfg", O_CREAT | O_RDWR | 0666)) < 0
+ if ((outfd = open("/tmp/ks.cfg", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0666)) < 0
|| (infd = open("/tmp/ks/ks.cfg", O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
newtWinMessage(_("Error"), _("Ok"), _("Error opening files "
"for kickstart copy: %s\n"), strerror(errno));
--
Oy!

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