Can the NFS media location be passed to anaconda as a kernel arg?

Kyle McDonald kmcdonald at egenera.com
Wed Apr 28 18:15:29 UTC 2010


Hi All,

I want to setup PXE network installs that are interactive, but I'd like
to limit the amount of questions the user has to enter for each one. The
PXE boot already passes some kernel args to configure the serial
console, and force a vnc install. I'm wondering if I can also supply the
NFS location for the media as a kernel arg so that users don't need to
type it in everytime (It's always the same, and it's long.)

Also I know when doing KickStart installs, you can use ks-device=eth1 to
avoid being prompted for the network device when there is more than one.
Can I use this same option so that the interactive user doesn't have to
know which eth to pick?

On a related note, is there a way to have anaconda figure out which
interface the PXE boot booted the machine on and just go with that one?
Right now I need to make 2 different PXE boot config files for the 2
types of machines I have because one boots on eth0 and the other on eth1.

Thanks,

  -Kyle





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