Re: Ejecting CD after kickstart installation

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> I'm installing Fedora 3 on a lot of machines in our rendering farm using a 
> kickstart installation.
> The best would be if I could somehow get the kickstart to eject the cd 
> straight after it has finished the first phase, i.e. before the first 
> reboot. Cause then I don't need to connect a monitor and keyboard to the 
> machine, all I need to do is to put the first installation CD and let it 
> install via NFS and eventually it would just be done.
> The network path and such information for the installation is provided via 
> DHCP and the installation CD has been slightly modified to boot straight in 
> to the kickstart-mode.

This doesn't help you for FC3, but FC5 and later will allow you to
specify:

   reboot --eject

Or shutdown, halt, etc. to eject the CD when it reboots.  Just for your
future reference.

- Chris


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