Re: detection of boot media...

[Phil Meyer <phil unixlords com>]

James Olin Oden wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> So presently today, as I understand things there is no way that I can
> see to simply tell anaconda to use the media I booted from to acquire
> the kickstart file.  When you specify "cdrom" that means the first
> cdrom not the one I booted from (some systems you can boot from the
> bottom cdrom).   In cases where I use a usb flash drive I have to
> specify the precise device name, which makes the syslinux config
> particular to a certain hardware and which port the USB drive was
> plugged into.  This is posing problems for us when we try to
> distribute one CDROM that just does the right thing.
[snip]
Yes and no.
It is possible to put kickstart files in the initrd.img.  In that case 
they are consistant: file:/my.ks

However, the location of the install media to be used in the install may 
not always be sda, especially on systems with internal SATA drives.

So that leads to the same issue: What do I put in the kickstart file to 
identify the location of the install media?

Another note:

When installing from a USB drive, grub will smash the MBR of the USB 
device at the end of the install.  Not good.