Sure, I do that to permit us to hands-off kickstart
without a network or cdrom required.
As somebody else mentioned, it also works fine without
a monitor and video card if you have a serial console setup,
assuming you have things set up in grub and the o/s
via %post to enable a serial console ala the serial console
howto.
I set up different directories on my home system to try
different versions of RH or different configurations,
and kickstart the one I want to play with, then kickstart
back to the normal one when I'm done.
One thing you have to know is that you can't reference
the partition you have your iso images on unless you do
it in %post. Kickstart mounts the partition as /tmp/isodir
at the beginning, and if you define it in the normal partition
section, it'll try to mount over an already mounted partition
and anaconda aborts.
If you want to remount the isodir partition in %post and
it's ext3, you need to specify the -t ext2 flags in your
mount command, works fine.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Loncarevic [mailto:redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 9:39 AM
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Kickstarting a running server
You can go even further with:
ks=hd:<device>:/<file>
The installation program will mount the file system on <device>
(which must be vfat or ext2), and look for the kickstart
configuration file as <file> in that file system (for example,
ks=hd:sda3:/mydir/ks.cfg).
With this you can put ks.cfg file on same server.
Has anyone tried to mount ext3 partition this way?
Regards,
Igor
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 18:09, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "C" == Crow <Crow69> writes:
>
> C> In other words, is there an executable I can run on a node computer
> C> to make a the server rekickstart off a kickstart server? I want to
> C> do this without a boot disk or cdrom.
>
> I put a stanza in /etc/grub.conf (edit as appropriate):
>
> title Reinstall
> lock
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz.reinstall ks=http://kickstart.server/ks.cfg
> initrd /initrd.reinstall
>
> Grab the vmlinuz and initrd from the install CD and put them in /boot.
> Then when you want to reinstall, just edit grub.conf, change the
> default= line and remove the "lock". The system will kickstart
> itself, no bood media is required (besides the hard disk, of course).
>
> - J<
>
>
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