On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 17:42 -0400, Daniel Wyatt Margo wrote: > Is automated installation from a live CD or USB using a custom kickstart > script possible? OLPC is very interested in this, but we are encountering > a lot of problems, such as bug #243374 (the files attached to that report > may be of interest), or more recently that anaconda's liveinst performs > xconfig -- we are installing a headless server and would much prefer to > skipx . We need more control over /usr/bin/liveinst . > > Ultimately what we are trying to do is to be able to easily install a > preconfigured server image from a live USB key. But it's unclear to me > whether this is feasible-but-I-am-looking-at-the-problem-the-wrong-way, or > if anaconda is simply missing the features we need at this time. Thoughts? All the pieces are there such that it should work, but it's not a case that's really seen any testing due to focus. Which means there's a reasonable chance of there being bugs. Jeremy
