Right now, if I want a workstation, I use the bootable workstation image on a USB thumb drive and choose to install the workstation image to my hard drive. Then I have to go back afterwards and run a bunch of yum groupinstall commands to get my machine where I want it. Not ideal for multiple installations.
I used the F33 Everything DVD image and got closer, but I still don't see a way to use it to kickstart a VM or a desktop.
I even used the Fedora Server DVD image and did a bunch of yum groupinstall in %post, but every time I got an error about plymouth and it hung.
How the heck do I kickstart a workstation? Preferably from the F33-Everything DVD image so I can set up Xfce.
Thomas
在 2021-04-14星期三的 10:33 -0500,Thomas Cameron写道:
Right now, if I want a workstation, I use the bootable workstation image on a USB thumb drive and choose to install the workstation image to my hard drive. Then I have to go back afterwards and run a bunch of yum groupinstall commands to get my machine where I want it. Not ideal for multiple installations.
Try following this guide: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/rawhide/install-guide/advanced/K...
I used the F33 Everything DVD image and got closer, but I still don't see a way to use it to kickstart a VM or a desktop.
I even used the Fedora Server DVD image and did a bunch of yum groupinstall in %post, but every time I got an error about plymouth and it hung.
How the heck do I kickstart a workstation? Preferably from the F33-Everything DVD image so I can set up Xfce.
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On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:33:27 -0500 Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron@camerontech.com wrote:
How the heck do I kickstart a workstation? Preferably from the F33-Everything DVD image so I can set up Xfce.
Check out the --kickstart option to livecd-iso-to-disk. The last tiem I did this I used a command like:
livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --ks /tmp/inst.ks \ /mnt/data/iso/CentOS7/CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-1804.iso /dev/sdd
to create a bootable USB drive with a kickstart. It should work the same for Fedora as CentOS.
Or you can add the inst.ks for anaconda when you boot the DVD, but you need to type it in. Or put the ISO and kickstart on a PXE server.
Jim
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:33:27AM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I used the F33 Everything DVD image and got closer, but I still don't see a way to use it to kickstart a VM or a desktop.
What problems are you having here? I think simply putting
@^workstation-product-environment
in the %packages should do it.
Also: I would suggest using the Everything Net Installer
https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/33/Everything/x...
rather than the DVD ISO because you can then install with updates from the start rather than needing to download them all immediately after. If you're doing a bunch of installs where that causes extra traffic, make a local mirror or use a local caching proxy.
On 4/14/21 10:53 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:33:27AM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I used the F33 Everything DVD image and got closer, but I still don't see a way to use it to kickstart a VM or a desktop.
What problems are you having here? I think simply putting
@^workstation-product-environment
in the %packages should do it.
Also: I would suggest using the Everything Net Installer
https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/33/Everything/x...
rather than the DVD ISO because you can then install with updates from the start rather than needing to download them all immediately after. If you're doing a bunch of installs where that causes extra traffic, make a local mirror or use a local caching proxy.
Sorry, I actually asked the question terribly.
I wanted to test a ks.cfg that would install the Xfce desktop and LibreOffice and also do some stuff in %post like install the RPM Fusion repo files and Google Chrome. I was testing using kvm images. I realized I could point my install media URL at one of the public mirrors of the Everything repo and then add the ins.ks=http://host/f33ks.cfg and just not even put a local installation source.
I've got it running in a KVM guest and I'll test on bare metal in a few minutes.
I'll probably rsync a public Everything mirror to my installation server so I can use a local Cobbler instance to do my installs.
Sorry for the noise.
Thomas