Kickstart initialization over authenticated FTP
Philip Rowlands
phr at doc.ic.ac.uk
Sun Mar 19 03:36:34 UTC 2006
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Trevor Lauder wrote:
> We have been trying to find out if there is a way to pull the
> kickstart config file down through authenticated FTP. Running
> something like "linux text
> ks=ftp://username:password@somehost.domain/kickstart.cfg......." on
> the bootloader prompt doesn't work. Is there a way to pull that file
> down with FTP using a username / password? Anonymous FTP is not an
> option.
You don't say which version of Redhat/Fedora this is, but there's
certainly FTP username/password support in the current version of
anaconda. See ftp.c and urls.c in the source for the gory details.
Cheers,
Phil
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