Re: Kickstart initialization over authenticated FTP

[Philip Rowlands <phr doc ic ac uk>]

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