Philip Prindeville wrote:
BTW, am I the only person confused by the parameter
syntax, i.e. that some arguments take an '=' and some don't?
part / --fstype ext3 --size=1024
firewall --enabled --trust=eth0 --http --ssh
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
bootloader --location=mbr
When do you need '=' and when don't you? Or how about, we
get rid of them altogether?
-Philip
Actually, it's worst than that. Looking at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaKickstartIntegration?highlight=%28kickstart%29
I see:
network --bootproto dhcp
for instance, but looking at:
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html
I see:
network (optional)
Configures network information for the system. If the kickstart
installation does not require networking (in other words, it is
not installed over NFS, HTTP, or FTP), networking is not
configured for the system. If the installation does require
networking and network information is not provided in the
kickstart file, the Red Hat Linux installation program assumes
that the installation should be done over eth0 via a dynamic IP
address (BOOTP/DHCP), and configures the final, installed system
to determine its IP address dynamically. The network option
configures networking information for kickstart installations via
a network as well as for the installed system.
--bootproto=
One of dhcp, bootp, or static.
It default to dhcp. bootp and dhcp are treated the same.
The DHCP method uses a DHCP server system to obtain its
networking configuration. As you might guess, the BOOTP method
is similar, requiring a BOOTP server to supply the networking
configuration. To direct a system to use DHCP:
network --bootproto=dhcp
To direct a machine to use BOOTP to obtain its networking
configuration, use the following line in the kickstart file:
network --bootproto=bootp
Writing a syntactically correct ks.cfg for FC5 is turning out to be
full of twisty little mazes, all alike.
Someone please tell me that the '=' are optional, and that the parser will
happily accept them if present and not complain if they aren't...
-Philip
