On 08/24/2011 02:43 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey, folks. So, another criteria discussion. It came up during Alpha > that we're grievously lacking criteria to ensure kickstart installs > work. So, we should kick that around a bit, I guess... > > kickstart is a very broad area; you can write extremely complex > kickstart files that do a lot of stuff. So broadly what we'd need to do > is define a subset of kickstart functionality that we expect to work, > and then possibly divide that up by release phase (so some stuff must > work by Beta, the rest by Final, for e.g.) > > anaconda devs following this list, do you have any existing expectations > as to what level of kickstart functionality ought to be in place for > releases, and when you think would be appropriate? > > So far it seems everyone more or less agrees that it should be possible > to do at least a basic unattended kickstart install by Beta. Adam, I like the idea if having a kickstart installs for release criteria. So, I do unattended installs all the time w/ virt-install, but mostly minimal, to manage plenty of kvm guests via shell. For ex, a minimal kickstart I use is below which gives a serial console: ############################################ install text reboot lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us network --bootproto dhcp rootpw redhat firewall --enabled --ssh selinux --enforcing timezone --utc America/New_York #firstboot --disable #NOTE: I have to use rd_NO_PLYMOUTH bootloader --location=mbr --append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 rd_NO_PLYMOUTH" zerombr clearpart --all --initlabel autopart %packages @core %end ############################################ Here, for instance, plymouth and serial console doesn't play well. Note in the above ks, I have to use the rd_NO_PLYMOUTH flag (this disables plymouth) .If this flag isn't used, serial console access is broken. (I guess I filed a bug for this, which I can't find at the moment. Thankfully, Ray Strode pointed me to the NO_PLYMOUTH flag ) Things like these can be ironed out w/ the kickstart criteria. ps:Link to the above ks: http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/virt/fed-minimal.ks thanks, /kashyap -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
