On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:22:16PM -0400, Paul Nasrat wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:50 +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:28:20PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:17:02PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > > > When was it decided that computer farms, servers and remote > > > > administration was unimportant, and only the desktop user was > > > > interesting? Is it official, or just de facto? > > > > > > Kickstart is specifically dessigned to handle these cases. You can script > > > the entire install and do the install "hands-off" > > > > I remember looking at kickstart a long time ago, and it sucked > > horribly when you didn't want to script the _entire_ install. > > Hopefully, it is better now. > > Kickstart has for the longest time prompted you for information not > contained with in the ks.cfg. Please define when you looked and what > you tried more clearly so we can assist you. Statements like "it > sucked" really aren't useful for pointing out potential solutions using > kickstart. "long time ago" means in this case around redhat 7 or so. I'm looking at system-config-kickstart, and unless I misunderstand the (required) tags, you can't get a prompt for what I need to have install-time locally configurable. Specifically: - keyboard type (50% fr, 50% us here) - root password - partitioning With fc3 I had savagely hacked anaconda/loader2 to only ask these and the network configuration. Very useful, it allowed me to give the install CD to pretty much anybody and they ended up with a working system[1]. Anyway, I'll try removing the entries from the ks.cfg and see how it goes. OG. [1] Yes, they *are* smart enough to partition correctly :-) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
