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RedHat Installation
On Sunday 21 May 2006 19:49, nandu stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: I am by no means an...

I am setting up a kickstart for REDHAT EL4. THe client is a Dell with a 300Gig SATA dirve. Below is part of my ks.cfg file. I have the parbreastioning set to part --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow --ondisk sda

When I try to install the client off of the cdrom (linux ks=cdrom:-ks.cfg) I get the following error. " An error has occurred- no valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem. "

Cron Job
On 25 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article Probably shouldn't be inbinas it's not part of Red Hat or Fedora, but...

I am pretty sure it can't find the SATA drive, which is why I changed --asprimary to --ondisk sda in the parbreastioning line. Does anyone have a clue on how I can fix this?

Thanks for the help.

A REAL NEWBIE QUESTION 1698
vin said the following, on 06-23-06 10:34: What follows buttumes you know the name of the executable; let's suppose it's 'foo'. Normally...

# $RCSfile: devlan.cfg,v $ # $Revision: 1.1 $ # $Author: root $ # #Generated by Kickstart Configurator #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T

#System language lang enUS #Language modules to install langsupport enUS #System keyboard keyboard us #System mouse mouse #Sytem timezone timezone America-LosAngeles #Root pbuttword rootpw --iscrypted $1$yN6s0F3w$cM0 #Reboot after installation reboot #Use text mode install text #Install OS instead of upgrade install #Use NFS installation Media nfs --server=137.78.50.50 --dir=-export-disk1-kickstart-OS-RHEL464U3 #System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr --md5pbutt=$1$7sfgmc3UTTBJJsa4pp1 #Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr yes #Parbreastion clearing information clearpart --all --initlabel #Disk parbreastioning information part swap --size 4096 --ondisk sda part --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow --ondisk sda #System authorization infomation auth --useshadow --enablemd5 #Firewall configuration firewall --disabled selinux --permissive ##XWindows configuration information xconfig --depth=8 --resolution=640x480 --defaultdesktop=GNOME ##Text-mode text #Package install information %packages --resolvedeps



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