[lug] kickstart, RH7.3/KRUD

[Hugh Brown]

There's also a utility called ksconfig (kickstart config)

Hugh


On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 09:01, bof wrote:
> D. Stimits wrote:
> 
> >I wanted to create a kickstart file based on my existing test install.
> >There is plenty of documentation if I create the file by hand, but I was
> >wondering if anyone here knows a way to extract a living RH 7.3 install
> >and to auto-generate a kickstart file?
> >
> 
> There should be in the /root directory a kickstart file 
> "anaconda-ks.cfg" which, along with install.log, was created by RH 
> during the installation.  You can hand edit it as needed and use it to 
> duplicate your existing system. I don't think it will create the 
> partitions unless you specifically edit it to do so.
> 
> 
> >Slightly related, I can boot to windows and create a bootable floppy,
> >but I'm not sure if there is a way to do that without windows (assuming
> >I go with a floppy and not network). Creating a boot floppy via kernel
> >build does not seem to be the correct way. What would be a good
> >non-windows way to create the bootable floppy for kickstart?
> >
> 
> 
> If your system will not boot from CD, you should be able to create boot 
> floppies under Linux by using the appropriate image disk from the images 
> directory on the RH CD (or from 
> http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/updates.html) with the dd command.
> 
>     dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
> 
> Also you might want to know that you can use a kickstart file during 
> installation from a CD. Boot from the Red Hat Linux CD-ROM and direct 
> the installation to use the kickstart file on a vfat filesystem floppy 
> by passing kernel parameters.
> 
> boot: linux ks=hd:fd0/ks.cfg
> 
> See the Chapter 1 of the Customization Guide for a more detailed 
> description of the Kickstart process along with lots of gory details 
> about the kickstart file. It's at 
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide
> 
> BOF
> 
> 
> 
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