[Fedora-livecd-list] Kickstart ignored?

[Jerry Vonau]

Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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

Mind if I have a look at your ks file that you used for the livecd 
creation?

Well, liveinst takes the place of stage1, and is just a wrapper, have a 
look:

# eventually, we might want to allow a more "normal" install path
ANACONDA="/usr/sbin/anaconda --method=livecd://$LIVE_BLOCK --lang $LANG"

if [ ! -e /selinux/load ]; then
     ANACONDA="$ANACONDA --noselinux"
fi

if [ -x /usr/bin/hal-lock -a -e /var/lock/subsys/haldaemon ]; then
     /usr/bin/hal-lock --interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage \
  --exclusive --run "$ANACONDA $*"
else
     $ANACONDA $*
fi



As a test let the livecd boot, (don't pass liveinst at the boot prompt), 
try editing the liveinst file, adding in your kickstart stuff:
ANACONDA="/usr/sbin/anaconda --method=livecd://$LIVE_BLOCK \
--lang $LANG --kickstart=/tmp/ks.cfg"
save and then call liveinst.

Just trying to narrow down where the ks variable is not being passed.

Jerry