RE: question on kickstart.

[Stefan Wold <s wold wineasy se>]

It is not necessary to use the KickStart partitioning. If you have lot's
of server which maybe need different disklayout it's starting to be a
little to much work to have to change ks.cfg everytime to setup the new
disklayout. So if you instead skip the partitioning information in your
ks.cfg RedHat will popup the partitioning window during KickStart and ask
you to manually add your partitions and when you're done it will continue
automatically with the rest of the kickstart. Same thing can be
accomplished with both language, root password and so on.

Best regards
Stefan Wold           Vxl: +46 8 56311000  Wineasy AB
Staff, Sysadmin UNIX  Fax: +46 8 56311010  AGA / Dalénum, Hus 113, 3TR
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, BRYAN,SHANE A (HP-Corvallis,ex1) wrote:

> Rebooting from a floppy kickstart will just kickstart your system again.
>
> You have to physically pop the floppy out.  There is no "eject" command
> for the floppy like there is for the CD.
>
> As for not deleting existing OSes, use the "clearpart --linux" option.
> That will only clear existing linux partitions.  You will of course have
> to have the drive pre-partitioned to have an existing OS on it, so you can
> also use the --onpart option to specify which partitions to use, or --ondisk
>
> if you have a seperate disk to install linux on.
>
> Also, if you still want to boot the other OS, especially if it is
> windoze,you will want to specify the lilo location, "lilo --location
> /dev/hda5" for example, to be other than the default of mbr.  Mostly this is
> due to windoze boot loaders
> expecting to be the only boot loader on the disk.
>
> You exact situation may differ, so adjust as appropriate.  Also check out
> the
> Red Hat Kickstart HOWTO.
>
> Shane...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stefan Wold [mailto:s wold wineasy se]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:16 AM
> > To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> > Subject: Re: question on kickstart.
> >
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > To answer your question on howto transfer your files from the floppy
> > during install it's very easy. In your ks.cfg file after
> > %post add mount
> > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy and after that the copy command cp
> > /mnt/floppy/file
> > /etc   for example. I'm not completely sure about the reboot
> > issue but you
> > should be able to add reboot last in your ks.cfg file after
> > %post. As long
> > as your ks.cfg is used you will be in a chrooted environment in your
> > installation i.e. /mnt/sysimage would be chrooted /.
> >
> > Sincerely
> > Stefan Wold           Vxl: +46 8 56311000  Wineasy AB
> > Staff, Sysadmin UNIX  Fax: +46 8 56311010  AGA / Dalénum, Hus 113, 3TR
> >                       Mob: +46 701 880093  181 70 Lindingö
> >                       Tel: +46 8 56311093  Sweden
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 awesome-dave1 juno com wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > 	I'm trying to install rh7 via kickstart. I'm using the
> > boot floppy
> > > and
> > > the cdrom, not an nfs server. I've got the procedure down almost
> > > perfectly, I've got two questions though. I've got two files on the
> > > floppy that I'd like to cat to the hard drive to specific
> > places, how
> > > would I do this? Also, is there a way to do an automatic
> > reboot after the
> > > install? A third inquiry, If I do a kickstart install on a
> > drive with
> > > another os on it, I don't want to loose the other os, is
> > there a way to
> > > prevent this?
> > > Thanks.
> > > Dave.
> > >
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