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Title: Keep Getting Kickstart error
Post by: Derek Godfrey on June 26, 2001, 06:18:57 AM

Hello.  I am having trouble getting E-smith to install at all on my Dell Poweredge 2200.  It uses the Adaptec 7880/7890 SCSI controller. I keep getting an error with "can't find kickstart file in /tmp/kickstart.cfg" or something like that. It does this when loading the 78xxxx  driver file.  It terminates abnormally and kills the install procedure.

Anyone got any ideas?  Have tried with 2 different versions of E-Smith that were downloaded.  No luck.

Thanks,

Derek Godfrey (Linux/E-Smith newbie)

Title: Re: Keep Getting Kickstart error
Post by: Derek Godfrey on June 29, 2001, 08:39:50 AM

I got around the kickstart error by modifying the syslinux.cfg file on the boot floppy.
I removed the "=cdrom:/images/kickstart/install.cfg" portion of the APPEND ks line of the install section.  It now reads "APPEND ks initrd=initrd.img local".

It seems to have installed ok with one exception which I will post in a new thread.  Perhaps this workaround can help someone else.

Derek Godfrey