Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Mandriva support

[Lee M. <le...@ma...>]

Will do Bruno,

  I must have been looking at old stuff here:

http://members.shaw.ca/mandrake/

Thanks!

Lee (guilty of poor googling ;)

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 23:53 +0200, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Hello Lee !
> 
> Lee Mayes said on Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:32:27PM -0400:
> > Today it doesn't appear Mandrake supports pulling the autoinst config
> > file from anywhere but a network source or floppy disk.  This makes it
> > kind of unusable in our current way of creating images.
> 
> Ok, I check the doc before asking (sorry for the habits :-) andfound
> that this is probably not true. Cf:
> http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/pub/Main/AutoInstall/auto_inst.html#The_auto_instcfg_File_Location
> 
> > The issue is being raised with the cooker developers.  If there is an
> > undocumented way to do it (or they add ks=file || cdrom options) I'll
> > give it another go.
> 
> I think you could indeed try that:
> 
> append auto_install=path/to/test.cfg automatic=method:cdrom ramdisk_size=128000
> initrd=network.rdz root=/dev/ram3 acpi=ht vga=788
> 
> Let me know if you're able to use that with success. (or not :-)
> 
> Bruno.