Are you limited to using CD/DVDs? You can put a custom ks file on other media types or make it available via the network(via ftp, nfs, http, etc) amm On 01/25/2012 09:35 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, root@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Firstly, for where to put the ks file, it would be easiest for you to >> remaster the boot CD, and put the ks file into the root directory of >> the CD, update the configuration for the CD's boot-loader to add >> something like "ks=cdrom:/fc14.ks", and then burn the resulting >> (modified) file-tree to a new CD disk > > Wow. > The possibility that I might have to edit the CD had occurred to me, > but I had assumed my reasoning was wrong. >> From here: > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-startinginstall.html > > it seems like I could use a kickstart file in > lots of places if I knew the magic formula. > Also if the instructions there apply when > one is using a minimal CD and a DVD image. > Also, I would need to know how to refer to a partition or a device. > It's my understanding that beginning with F15 or F16, > names like sdb2 are not reliable anymore. > >> To get around the too early/to late of %pre and %post, you may want >> to add a custom RPM archive file to the CD, have it dump the files >> into the being-created system, and run a command as part of its >> installation procedure that causes the newly added files to be read. >> Then reference the new RPM archive in the packages section of your ks >> file. > > If that is really necessary, I might have to give up. > It might be easy if one knows how, but I don't. > I've never made an RPM before. > I've never used kickstart before. > For me, installing is something I've always > approached with fear and trepidation. > Something always goes wrong. > Also, that prescription seems rather a lot to > be inferred from just "use a kickstart file". > > Assuming that I edit my CD image, > is making it bootable just a matter of ticking > the right flag on the burner program? > I'd always sort of expected that installer CDs were special. > _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
