Ok... I think it will work.... Note, I was doing this on a 7.0 install. It seemed to work fine, but the install died and spit out a traceback. Oh well... I can worry about that later. Right now I have to do this for a 7.1 install as well, which is what I am working on. First issue: How do I keep it from doing ANY x configuration at all. Leaving out the X config lines simply drops me out of the automated install and into the X config portion. then returns to teh automated part after I have manually configured X. I still havent found a switch or bit of code that will tell the installer to completely skip X configuration. Also, I need it to completely skip even identifying the video card (On my test machine, with no X config options set in ks.cfg, it first pops up a dialog that gives the make and modle of video card, with OK and BACK buttons, then returns to the automated stuff, and then drops out again to configure X. any thoughts? Next issue... I think I ahve this one worked out. I put in some %post commands to run ncftpget to install some post install rpms. that didnt work. I think it will work fine with # rpm -i ftp://ftp.server.com/pub/rpms-to-install but I cant test that until the current round of tests is done on that machine. so I am not really worried about that one at the moment. The big thing at the present time is getting it to skip X completely during install. Oh... and on a side note, I know that when you are setting partitions with part you can assign --grow to make one grow to fill disk. Can you also specify partitions with a percentage of disk space instead? that way, no matter what size disk is in the machine, the installer will always give / 25%, /hom 25%, /usr 35% and /var the rest ( after setting definte sizes for /boot and swap, of course). or should I just stick with three partitions (boot, swap, and /) and set / to grow? And what about making it automatically recognize two or more disks?... Hmmm wonder if i could make it manually set up a software raid of two disks... that would probably be more trouble than it is worth... any way, thats enough to chew on for now. cheers and thansk Erik! jeff On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Erik Troan wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Jeff Lane wrote: > > > I would assume I could do a "linux dd ks=floppy" at the boot prompt of the > > installer to get it to do that, but I havent tried it yet to be sure. > > Actually, this just occured to me, so I havetn tried anything with it > > yet. > > I'd try that -- a *brief* perusal of the code suggests it will do what you > want. Complain here if it doesn't. > > Erik > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | > | | > | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad | > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Jeffrey Lane, RHCX, EMT Red Hat, Inc. 919-547-0012 www.redhat.com/support In memory of all victims of the Trade Center attack. and especially in memory of all Firefighters, LEOs and EMTs who paid the ultimate sacrifice during this troubles time so that others may live. God Speed my Brothers and Sisters.
