Re: How does Kickstart actually start?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, 22 May 2003, Bob Arendt wrote:

> This is more of a theory question - please feel free to redirect
> me to a more appropriate list.
> 
> I'm setting up a kickstart install.  I can see how the initial kernel
> line has a "ks" or "ks=nfs:server.example.com:/mydir/ks.cfg" parameter,
> but what actually executes this information?  I can't find anything
> in the kernel source that actually executes this.
> 
> How does kickstart really start?  Where's the relevant source code?

Anaconda reads the ks.cfg and executes the commands in there. The src is in the
anaconda*.src.rpm. FYI, there is an anaconda as well as a kickstart list.

-- 
.............Tom	"Nothing would please me more than being able to 
tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx	hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market 
			with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976

   			We are still waiting ....




[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Users]     [Centos Users]     [Kernel Development]     [Red Hat Install]     [Red Hat Watch]     [Red Hat Development]     [Red Hat Phoebe Beta]     [Yosemite Forum]     [Fedora Discussion]     [Gimp]     [Stuff]     [Yosemite News]

  Powered by Linux