Jag -- ...and then Jag said... % On Thu, 24 May 2001, David T-G wrote: % % > I'd like to know if there's a way to do a completely hands-off kickstart. ... % % You can just get it to boot anaconda off the harddrive. loopback mount % bootnet.img, copy the kernel and initrd into /boot, then make a lilo % target that uses them. Boot that target and it will be just like you % booted the bootnet floppy, but you won't have to worry about removing % the floppy. (plus it will load faster if you say store the kernel and % initrd somewhere so you don't have to keep pulling them off floppy) Hey, that's pretty slick. For the moment we're building boxes that weren't running Linux before, but I'll eagerly look ahead to this. I suppose I could do my load and then put back the kernel and initrd file (from the new image, even!) from a script called in %post. Clever :-) % % > It's the "remove your media" part that bugs me; I have to have a keyboard % > in place in order to hit the space bar to tell the box to go ahead and % > reboot. How can I (perhaps in %post) tell the box to not wait for me but % > to bounce itself as soon as it is done with the load? % % Add 'reboot' as one of your kickstart.cfg options and it will % automatically reboot for you. Now I know about this; thanks. I was trying to run reboot by hand and it looks like it wasn't in the path. Now I don't have to anyway. % % % I've seen large computer labs that are setup like this, with the % 'reinstall' target put into lilo in the %post on the installs.. so a % reinstall of the lab is just a matter of sshing to all the boxes (easily % automated with an expect script) and running 'lilo -R reinstall' then % 'reboot'. It's quite nice. It reminds me of Sun's JumpStart, which I know and love :-) Thanks again! :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) davidtg@xxxxxxxxxxx * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) davidtgwork@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bigfoot.com/~davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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