Kickstart Install Live Images

Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski@xxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:25:00 -0500



    This describes basically how to do kickstart Lime Image install:
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart/KickstartingFedoraLiveInstallation

    
    If you stick with network-only for locations of the install image,
    this also works for Fedora 20.  However, for the full capability of
    network or USB Flash Drive for the location of the image, the Fedora
    21 is needed.

    
    Optionally, I have an updates.img available for anaconda-20.25.16-1
    here:  http://czarc.org/fedora/updates/

    
    As described here:
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#liveimg

    
      liveimg --url="" [--proxy=<proxyurl>]
          [--checksum=<sha256>] [--noverifyssl]
      
      
         Install a disk image instead of packages. The image can be
          the squashfs.img from a Live iso, or any filesystem mountable
          by the install media (eg. ext4). Anaconda expects the image to
          contain utilities it needs to complete the system install so
          the best way to create one is to use livemedia-creator to make
          the disk image. If the image contains /LiveOS/*.img (this is
          how squashfs.img is structured) the first *img file inside
          LiveOS will be mounted and used to install the target system.
          As of Anaconda 21.29 the URL may point to a tarfile of the
          root filesystem. The file must end in .tar, .tbz, .tgz, .txz,
          .tar.bz2, tar.gz, tar.xz
        
      
    You can also kickstart install with liveimg pointing to a tarball as
    or anaconda-21.29 ... well, sort-of.  It basically works but there
    are a couple of problems.

    
    1.  The initramfs file for the rescue kernel is not created when
    doing a tarball install.  The problem along with a patch to fix it
    has been bz'ed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170589
    and the patch has also been submitted to anaconda-patches.  Since it
    is unlikely that this update will make it into Fedora 21, I have
    created an updates.img for anaconda-21.48.21-1 which is available
    here: http://czarc.org/fedora/updates/ (the README.txt is the output
    of git-log showing what updates are applied).

    
    2.  Using the updates.img, you do a kickstart liveimg install
    of a tarball.  Everything is good ... sorry, no.  I am not sure if
    this is a bug but installation using a tarball needs a full-system
    SELinux relabel.  Fortunately, this is easy to handle by adding the
    following to your kickstart file:

    %post

        /usr/bin/touch /.autorelabel

        %end
    

    Enjoy, Gene

  
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