Ejecting CD after kickstart installation

Joe Van Dyk joevandyk at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 16:21:29 UTC 2006


You can eject the CD right after it connects to the NFS drive (i.e.
right when it says that it's starting anaconda).

On 2/17/06, Mattias Andersson <tiaskillen at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm installing Fedora 3 on a lot of machines in our rendering farm using a
> kickstart installation.
> The best would be if I could somehow get the kickstart to eject the cd
> straight after it has finished the first phase, i.e. before the first
> reboot. Cause then I don't need to connect a monitor and keyboard to the
> machine, all I need to do is to put the first installation CD and let it
> install via NFS and eventually it would just be done.
> The network path and such information for the installation is provided via
> DHCP and the installation CD has been slightly modified to boot straight in
> to the kickstart-mode.
>
> Has anyone been succesful in doing this?
>
> Any suggestions would be very much apprecieated.
>
> Mattias
>
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