kickstart vs. /etc/login.defs

[Aaron Morrison]

Are you limited to using CD/DVDs?
You can put a custom ks file on other media types or make it available
via the network(via ftp, nfs, http, etc)

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On 01/25/2012 09:35 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, root at nachtmaus.us wrote:
>
>> Firstly, for where to put the ks file, it would be easiest for you to
>> remaster the boot CD, and put the ks file into the root directory of
>> the CD, update the configuration for the CD's boot-loader to add
>> something like "ks=cdrom:/fc14.ks", and then burn the resulting
>> (modified) file-tree to a new CD disk
>
> Wow.
> The possibility that I might have to edit the CD had occurred to me,
> but I had assumed my reasoning was wrong.
>> From here:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-startinginstall.html
>
> it seems like I could use a kickstart file in
> lots of places if I knew the magic formula.
> Also if the instructions there apply when
> one is using a minimal CD and a DVD image.
> Also, I would need to know how to refer to a partition or a device.
> It's my understanding that beginning with F15 or F16,
> names like sdb2 are not reliable anymore.
>
>> To get around the too early/to late of %pre and %post, you may want
>> to add a custom RPM archive file to the CD, have it dump the files
>> into the being-created system, and run a command as part of its
>> installation procedure that causes the newly added files to be read.
>> Then reference the new RPM archive in the packages section of your ks
>> file.
>
> If that is really necessary, I might have to give up.
> It might be easy if one knows how, but I don't.
> I've never made an RPM before.
> I've never used kickstart before.
> For me, installing is something I've always
> approached with fear and trepidation.
> Something always goes wrong.
> Also, that prescription seems rather a lot to
> be inferred from just "use a kickstart file".
>
> Assuming that I edit my CD image,
> is making it bootable just a matter of ticking
> the right flag on the burner program?
> I'd always sort of expected that installer CDs were special.
>