Kickstarting Fedora xfce 30 Spin

[Stephen M. Wright II]

Has anyone had any success automating the installation of fedora xfce 30.
I want to automate the installation of the xfce spin from the live cd.
Everything works great with this distribution.  I'm installing it so much i
need to be able to automate the process.  If i try to begin the kickstart
process like i normally would with redhat or fedora installation DVD with
the options "inst.ks=cdrom:/dev/sr1:/kick.cfg" or something similar it will
not run the kickstart process and just start the gui interface.   Any help
would be appreciated.

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> Has anyone had any success automating the installation of fedora xfce
> 30. I want to automate the installation of the xfce spin from the
> live cd. Everything works great with this distribution. I'm
> installing it so much i need to be able to automate the process. If
> i try to begin the kickstart process like i normally would with
> redhat or fedora installation DVD with the options
> "inst.ks=cdrom:/dev/sr1:/kick.cfg" or something similar it will not
> run the kickstart process and just start the gui interface. Any help
> would be appreciated.

I haven't tried to do a kickstart installation in more than a decade.  I'm guessing that there are properties about the live media that are a bit challenging for kickstart but I'd love to be wrong about that.

The reason I've lived without it is because I've been making my own respins that are fully updated and have the packages I want preinstalled... and doing a regular install has been pretty efficient that way.  In both methods, there always seem to be a few manual config tasks post-install.

When I've wanted to do a bunch of machines at once, usually I just do one system and then using a physical disk cloner (or bootable external hard disk with Clonezilla live and an image storage partition) and clone that.  Again, there'll be a little bit of post-clone/install manual config tasks.

Sorry I didn't have a better answer for you.  Maybe someone will.

TYL,

[Stephen M. Wright II]

Ok thank you. When you it's been your own version of the live CD can you
actually get it to partition the discs as well like you would with a
Kickstart configuration file?
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:26 PM Scott Dowdle  wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Has anyone had any success automating the installation of fedora xfce
> > 30. I want to automate the installation of the xfce spin from the
> > live cd. Everything works great with this distribution. I'm
> > installing it so much i need to be able to automate the process. If
> > i try to begin the kickstart process like i normally would with
> > redhat or fedora installation DVD with the options
> > "inst.ks=cdrom:/dev/sr1:/kick.cfg" or something similar it will not
> > run the kickstart process and just start the gui interface. Any help
> > would be appreciated.
>
> I haven't tried to do a kickstart installation in more than a decade.  I'm
> guessing that there are properties about the live media that are a bit
> challenging for kickstart but I'd love to be wrong about that.
>
> The reason I've lived without it is because I've been making my own
> respins that are fully updated and have the packages I want preinstalled...
> and doing a regular install has been pretty efficient that way.  In both
> methods, there always seem to be a few manual config tasks post-install.
>
> When I've wanted to do a bunch of machines at once, usually I just do one
> system and then using a physical disk cloner (or bootable external hard
> disk with Clonezilla live and an image storage partition) and clone that.
> Again, there'll be a little bit of post-clone/install manual config tasks.
>
> Sorry I didn't have a better answer for you.  Maybe someone will.
> TYL,
>
> Scott Dowdle
> 704 Church Street
> Belgrade, MT 59714
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[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> Ok thank you. When you it's been your own version of the live CD can
> you actually get it to partition the discs as well like you would
> with a Kickstart configuration file?

Hmm, I haven't looked into that.  How I've done that in the past though... was when I had a lot of drives all the same size/make/model... and I just partitioned one the way I liked it and ran an sfdisk command that would output the partition table to a file... which I could use as import to a future sfdisk run to partition the rest of them.

How I've been doing it with my live media... is either manually (if it is a fresh install) or by reusing existing partitions... and often having a separate /home that I don't reformat.

I don't know if that helps or not but it's the best I have.  Of course with disk cloning, the partition table was baked in.

TYL,

[Stephen M. Wright II]

Ok I'll look into that. Thanks

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 5:56 PM Scott Dowdle  wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Ok thank you. When you it's been your own version of the live CD can
> > you actually get it to partition the discs as well like you would
> > with a Kickstart configuration file?
>
> Hmm, I haven't looked into that.  How I've done that in the past though...
> was when I had a lot of drives all the same size/make/model... and I just
> partitioned one the way I liked it and ran an sfdisk command that would
> output the partition table to a file... which I could use as import to a
> future sfdisk run to partition the rest of them.
>
> How I've been doing it with my live media... is either manually (if it is
> a fresh install) or by reusing existing partitions... and often having a
> separate /home that I don't reformat.
>
> I don't know if that helps or not but it's the best I have.  Of course
> with disk cloning, the partition table was baked in.
> TYL,
>
> Scott Dowdle
> 704 Church Street
> Belgrade, MT 59714
> [phone] [home]
> [phone] [work]
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[Wayne Twine]

I don't know if it will work on fedora but I recommend Calamares if it does
:)

On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, 00:00 Stephen M. Wright II, <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Has anyone had any success automating the installation of fedora xfce 30.
> I want to automate the installation of the xfce spin from the live cd.
> Everything works great with this distribution.  I'm installing it so much i
> need to be able to automate the process.  If i try to begin the kickstart
> process like i normally would with redhat or fedora installation DVD with
> the options "inst.ks=cdrom:/dev/sr1:/kick.cfg" or something similar it will
> not run the kickstart process and just start the gui interface.   Any help
> would be appreciated.
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[Stephen M. Wright II]

Ok cool.  Thanks for the tip. Never heard of Calamares.  I'll look into
this.

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 4:20 AM Wayne Twine  wrote:
> I don't know if it will work on fedora but I recommend Calamares if it
> does :)
>
> On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, 00:00 Stephen M. Wright II, <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
> > Has anyone had any success automating the installation of fedora xfce
> > 30.  I want to automate the installation of the xfce spin from the live
> > cd.  Everything works great with this distribution.  I'm installing it so
> > much i need to be able to automate the process.  If i try to begin the
> > kickstart process like i normally would with redhat or fedora installation
> > DVD with the options "inst.ks=cdrom:/dev/sr1:/kick.cfg" or something
> > similar it will not run the kickstart process and just start the gui
> > interface.   Any help would be appreciated.
> > --
> > Stephen M. Wright II
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[Andrew Simpson]

try: inst.ks=cdrom:/dev/cdrom:/path/to/ks.cfg.   it's possible that sr1 is
not the proper designation on that particular system.  you'll need to drop
to a debug terminal/shell and see what the system finds.  it would also be
helpful to have the rest of the arguments such as inst.stage2, etc....
you should also switch to alt-f2 console and then look at the anaconda logs
after it hits the graphical install screen.  it's possible that the problem
lies in your kickstart file, not in the inst.ks line.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 5:00 PM Stephen M. Wright II <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Has anyone had any success automating the installation of fedora xfce 30.
> I want to automate the installation of the xfce spin from the live cd.
> Everything works great with this distribution.  I'm installing it so much i
> need to be able to automate the process.  If i try to begin the kickstart
> process like i normally would with redhat or fedora installation DVD with
> the options "inst.ks=cdrom:/dev/sr1:/kick.cfg" or something similar it will
> not run the kickstart process and just start the gui interface.   Any help
> would be appreciated.
> --
> Stephen M. Wright II
> Email: [e-mail]
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