[Fedora-livecd-list] Kickstart ignored?

[Gary Thomas]

Jerry Vonau wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
>> Jerry Vonau wrote:
>>> Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> Running a system built with anaconda-11.4.0.40 (and friends), the
>>>> kickstart commands seem to be ignored when run from liveinst.
>>>>   # liveinst --text ks=/tmp/ks.cfg
>>>>      or
>>>>   # liveinst --text ksdev=eth0 ks=nfs:192.168.1.101:/tmp/ks.cfg
>>>>
>>>> Am I doing something wrong?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Jeremy said that the ks file needs to be local at this point, stage1 
>>> grabs the ks file, but there is no stage1 with a cd install.
>>>
>>>> I really want to get this working so I can do [scripted] installs
>>>> from a livecd image.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is the network up at this point? If not.....
>>>
>>> A work-around would be to script the grabbing of the ks file yourself 
>>> and copying it /tmp. Use wget for a http/ftp source or maybe mount 
>>> the nfs server and copy over the ks file.
>>>
>>> Then use something like this:
>>> liveinst --text ks=/tmp/ks.cfg
>>
>> Precisely what I already did (see the first example above)
> 
> Just so I'm clear here, you burned the iso with this file in /tmp?

No, I downloaded the kickstart file into /tmp after the livecd was
booted, but before I called liveinst.

> Looking through /usr/sbin/anaconda I see:
> op.add_option("--kickstart", dest="ksfile")
> but no --ks= so I don't think anaconda is using the ks file.
> 
> Perhaps "liveinst --text --kickstart=/tmp/ks.cfg" would do the trick 
> here. That is setup in the livecd ks file, which would need to be edited:
> 
> if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" liveinst ; then
>    /usr/sbin/liveinst --kickstart=\$ks
> fi
> 
> if strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" textinst ; then
>    /usr/sbin/liveinst --text --kickstart=\$ks
> fi
> 
> Hoping I'm on the right track,

Thanks - I'll look more closely at how these options are passed around.