Re: automated installation from a live CD/USB

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 17:42 -0400, Daniel Wyatt Margo wrote:
> Is automated installation from a live CD or USB using a custom kickstart
> script possible? OLPC is very interested in this, but we are encountering
> a lot of problems, such as bug #243374 (the files attached to that report
> may be of interest), or more recently that anaconda's liveinst performs
> xconfig -- we are installing a headless server and would much prefer to
> skipx . We need more control over /usr/bin/liveinst .
> 
> Ultimately what we are trying to do is to be able to easily install a
> preconfigured server image from a live USB key. But it's unclear to me
> whether this is feasible-but-I-am-looking-at-the-problem-the-wrong-way, or
> if anaconda is simply missing the features we need at this time. Thoughts?

All the pieces are there such that it should work, but it's not a case
that's really seen any testing due to focus.  Which means there's a
reasonable chance of there being bugs.

Jeremy