Hey, my name is Fabian Deutsch besides beeing a long time Fedora - and thus anaconda - user, I'm workin on oVirt Node (http://www.ovirt.org/Node). Node is a slimmed down Fedora (or CentOS), which is deployed in the livecd form factor. This livecd is getting installed - as in copied - on to a LV by our custom installer. At runtime the host boots the livecd image stored on the LV. Changes to configuration files are persisted by storing those files on a writable partition and bind mounting them into the appropriate place. One thing - besides others - I like about Node is that you can do a complete installation and configuration using kernel arguments. Our customer is reading the installation parameters from the kernel cmdline instead of reading them from a kickstart like anaconda does. This is very convenient when Node get's deployed via PXE boot - where the installation parameters can be just given in the pxe conf. The following patch is basically an idea of how to bring kernel arguments based installations to anaconda: https://github.com/fabiand/anaconda/compare/master...kargs The high level idea is that kickstart directives can be given on the kernel cmdline, which are then - by a small script - transformed into a kickstart. This kickstart is later picked up by anaconda. Let me illustrate how such a transformation can look: keyboard --vckeymap=us rootpw --plaintext "foo bar" repo --baseurl=ur1.ca/bar --cost=42 becomes a.keyboard(vckeymap=us) a.rootpw(plaintext)="foo bar" \ a.repo(baseurl=ur1.ca/bar;cost=42) The transformation is (or intended to be) "lossless" and thus bidirectional. I've not yet come round to build a boot image to test this. There is only a doctest validating that the transformation is right. Any thoughts on such an (isolated) feature? Greetings fabian
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