RE: Kickstart initialization over authenticated FTP

["Trevor Lauder" <Trevor Lauder telus com>]

Ok thank you for the information, I'll take a look at the source and see what I can get working.  We are trying this on RHEL3.

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-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Philip Rowlands
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 8:37 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: Kickstart initialization over authenticated FTP

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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