{"id":44,"date":"2002-04-26T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2002-04-26T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2005-04-04T06:52:02","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T03:52:02","slug":"red-hat-kickstart-and-distribution-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2002\/04\/26\/red-hat-kickstart-and-distribution-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat, kickstart, and distribution hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kickstart day. Few more machines are off from Compaq to IBM. Meanwhile, I managed to get an interesting problem with kickstart – it panics the kernel with “init not found” if I boot from the floppy to do CD-ROM installation. Needs more investigation, but for now I choose to boot from CD-ROM and use floppy only for ks.cfg storage :) While looking for anyone with similar problem, I came across several nice resources about creating your own distribution based on Red Hat. Distribution Hacking 101<\/a> explains in details how to add LTSP project<\/a> to Red Hat 7.2 CDs; and Red Hat 7 CDs mini-HowTo<\/a> gives lots of explanations in general. There is something similar at Linuxdoc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Kickstart day. Few more machines are off from Compaq to IBM. Meanwhile, I managed to get an interesting problem with kickstart – it panics the kernel with “init not found” if I boot from the floppy to do CD-ROM installation. Needs more investigation, but for now I choose to boot from CD-ROM and use floppy … Continue reading Red Hat, kickstart, and distribution hacking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2002\/04\/30\/hacking-kickstart-and-amanda-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":44,"position":0},"title":"Hacking kickstart and amanda. 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