Hello all,
A general post just to help anyone who may end up in the situation I was in.
I really needed to do a network install of the 5.6 server, for one reason or another, possibly many. After making a floppy from the bootnet.img off the ISO I managed to boot and start the install okay, until just after Anaconda began - it bombed with an error something like "can't find /tmp/ks.cfg" or whatever it is.
Many searches of this site were conducted trying to find a solution. One in particular I read was something like - edit the syslinux.cfg file on the bootnet floppy, changing 'cdrom' to 'network'" (this for the section 'ks=cdrom:/images/ks_stub.cfg') - at least I think that's what the guy meant. Anyway, didn't work ...
This is what DID work:
In that file (syslinux.cfg on the bootnet floppy), instead of the section reading 'ks=cdrom:/images/ks_stub.cfg' CHANGE IT TO 'ks=http://192.168.0.1/images/ks_stub.cfg' (where '
http://192.168.0.1' is the direct http path to the e-smith directory relevant for you). Save the change and reboot from the same bootnet floppy - hope this works as well for you troubled ones as it did for me.
This method should also work for FTP and possibly something else - i'm no guru.
After doing the abovementioned procedure the installation read the ks_stub.cfg file via http with no problem at all. I then went on to complete the install via FTP from a different server (I had network problems not relevant to the ks.cfg thing).
Good luck to you all! & sorry 'bout the long winded post.
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