[Fedora-livecd-list] Kickstart ignored?

[Gary Thomas]

Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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.

I tried every option I could find, even trying to run anaconda in a more
"normal" mode, but it always ignores my kickstart file.  I even put an
incorrect file name <non-existent> and indeed nothing changed, hence my
assertion that the kickstart file (ks=XXX) is ignored completely.

What am I missing?  How can I get this to work?

Thanks