Ejecting CD after kickstart installation
Chris Lumens
clumens at redhat.com
Fri Feb 17 16:39:29 UTC 2006
> 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.
This doesn't help you for FC3, but FC5 and later will allow you to
specify:
reboot --eject
Or shutdown, halt, etc. to eject the CD when it reboots. Just for your
future reference.
- Chris
More information about the Kickstart-list
mailing list