Gary Thomas wrote:
Gary Thomas wrote:
Jerry Vonau wrote:
Gary Thomas wrote:
Jerry Vonau wrote:
Gary Thomas wrote:
Running a system built with anaconda-11.4.0.40 (and friends), the
kickstart commands seem to be ignored when run from liveinst.
# liveinst --text ks=/tmp/ks.cfg
or
# liveinst --text ksdev=eth0 ks=nfs:192.168.1.101:/tmp/ks.cfg
Am I doing something wrong?
Jeremy said that the ks file needs to be local at this point,
stage1 grabs the ks file, but there is no stage1 with a cd install.
I really want to get this working so I can do [scripted] installs
from a livecd image.
Thanks
Is the network up at this point? If not.....
A work-around would be to script the grabbing of the ks file
yourself and copying it /tmp. Use wget for a http/ftp source or
maybe mount the nfs server and copy over the ks file.
Then use something like this:
liveinst --text ks=/tmp/ks.cfg
Precisely what I already did (see the first example above)
Just so I'm clear here, you burned the iso with this file in /tmp?
No, I downloaded the kickstart file into /tmp after the livecd was
booted, but before I called liveinst.
Looking through /usr/sbin/anaconda I see:
op.add_option("--kickstart", dest="ksfile")
but no --ks= so I don't think anaconda is using the ks file.
Perhaps "liveinst --text --kickstart=/tmp/ks.cfg" would do the trick
here. That is setup in the livecd ks file, which would need to be
edited:
if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" liveinst ; then
/usr/sbin/liveinst --kickstart=\$ks
fi
if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" textinst ; then
/usr/sbin/liveinst --text --kickstart=\$ks
fi
Hoping I'm on the right track,
Thanks - I'll look more closely at how these options are passed around.
I tried every option I could find, even trying to run anaconda in a more
"normal" mode, but it always ignores my kickstart file. I even put an
incorrect file name <non-existent> and indeed nothing changed, hence my
assertion that the kickstart file (ks=XXX) is ignored completely.
What am I missing? How can I get this to work?
Thanks
Mind if I have a look at your ks file that you used for the livecd
creation?
Well, liveinst takes the place of stage1, and is just a wrapper, have a
look:
# eventually, we might want to allow a more "normal" install path
ANACONDA="/usr/sbin/anaconda --method=livecd://$LIVE_BLOCK --lang $LANG"
if [ ! -e /selinux/load ]; then
ANACONDA="$ANACONDA --noselinux"
fi
if [ -x /usr/bin/hal-lock -a -e /var/lock/subsys/haldaemon ]; then
/usr/bin/hal-lock --interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage \
--exclusive --run "$ANACONDA $*"
else
$ANACONDA $*
fi
As a test let the livecd boot, (don't pass liveinst at the boot prompt),
try editing the liveinst file, adding in your kickstart stuff:
ANACONDA="/usr/sbin/anaconda --method=livecd://$LIVE_BLOCK \
--lang $LANG --kickstart=/tmp/ks.cfg"
save and then call liveinst.
Just trying to narrow down where the ks variable is not being passed.
Jerry
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