RHEL kickstart with external DVDrom drive

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Published on 2011-03-10T12:06:42Z Indexed on 2011/03/12 16:12 UTC
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HI I've an old Dell poweredge server with an CDROM drive. I've attached a USB DVDROM and USB stick with my ks.cfg on so I can install RHEL from DVD not loads of CDs :-)

I can boot from the RHEL media in DVDROM and point the installer to the USB ks.cfg. This works but the ks.cfg script has the cdrom keyword in it. The install then stops and asks for the RHEL media to be in the CDROM drive not the DVDROM.

How can I change the ks.cfg so it uses the external DVDROM for the install media not servers builtin cdrom drive ?

I know I can go and rebuild my DVD image to include the ks.cfg , but this is an extra step I dont want to do if I have to.

Regards Andy

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