Re: Native Anaconda Support for Installs via USB Flash Stick

[Jason Maestri <jmaestri soleranetworks com>]

On 4/1/09 5:46 PM, "David Cantrell" <dcantrell redhat com> wrote:

> > > David,
> >    Thanks for the quick reply!  This sounds like it is worth pursuing.   The
> > only issue I see here is what to put as the option for the ?install? command
> > in the kickstart.  Obviously, I can?t use the ?cdrom? directive that we
> > usually use, and when the kickstart is being written, we won?t know what the
> > parameters to the harddrive directive would be.  The documentation seems to
> > say that the install command is optional anyway.  Should I just skip the
> > command entirely and just depend upon the repo that we?ll set up in the %pre
> > script?
>
> Yes, 'install' is an optional command.  The counterpart to 'install'
> would be 'upgrade'.  By default, anaconda is going to perform an
> install, which is what you want.  So you don't need to specify an
> additional keyword.
>
> Just find the yum repository on your USB media, write out the correct
> repo line in the %pre script, and make sure you have a %include line to
> include the file you're writing out in %pre.
>
> --
> David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>
> Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
>

David,
  So, I created a kickstart with no "install" line, and an include directive
for the "repo file" I set up in my %pre script. . .  No dice.  Anaconda
(from the loader) is throwing up the "Installation Method" dialog, asking me
to choose my media type.  Is there a way around this?  Otherwise, it looks
like Jeremy Katz's excellent but time consuming suggestion of making things
use UUIDs is going to have to be the way to go.  By the way, Jeremy, thanks
for that suggestion.

--Jason

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