kickstart install with liveimg

Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski@xxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:24:56 -0400



    Previously I asked about being able to run kickstart with liveinst. 
    Earlier today I realized that I had asked the wrong question.  The
    right wquestion is how to do a kickstart install where I specify
    liveimg to point to a previously built filesystem like one you get
    from a "live" iso.

    
    First, some background:

    
      My disk layouts/partitioning separates my data from the system
        (software).
      I backup my data.
      If I need to reinstall a system, I install it.  Of course,
        this covers when I am current running Fedora X and am installing
        Fedora X+1.  I never install over a working system and I do not
        do upgrades.  I use kickstart to define the system parameters,
        the package selection, and the partition layouts.

      
      I test both the install and the restore processes to make sure
        they work.  You cannot wait until you need them to find out they
        do not work.  Using pre-tested kickstart files increases the
        likelyhood that everything works as expected.

      
      When I install a system (the software) I want to have
        something stable.  In the past this meant using the distribution
        dvd or something similar that I created using mock/pungi.
      With Fedora 21 I sense that there is a movement to productize
        Fedora and use live installs so I decided to revist how I did an
        install.
    
    So, now my question is how do i use liveimg in a kickstart file and
    how do I boot that.

    
    Ideally, I would like to use something like
    Fedora-Live-Workstation*.iso, boot it up and be able top specify ks=
    on the boot cmdline where that kickstart file has something like
    liveimg --url="" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file://run/install/live">file://run/install/live

    
    Tried this and cannot get it to work.

    
    I also tried a different kickstart file where I specify liveimg
    --url="" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://">http://<part_to_Fedora-Live-Wordstation>.  This did not
    work either.

    
    I also tried that last case with bootup of a netinstall iso.  This
    worked (sort of).  It did the install and then crashed with a
    traceback.

    
    Before reporting anything, I want to understand how to do it
    (specify it) correctly so that it should work.

    
    Yes, this was all done with F21 Beta-RC1 and anaconda-21.48.12-1.

    
    Gene

  
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