[release-notes] Adding the rest of the Installer section
pbokoc
pbokoc at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 6 22:05:37 UTC 2014
commit 69377f3055f0ea9f80fe46eaac335bdc42c11cfc
Author: Petr Bokoc <pbokoc at redhat.com>
Date: Tue Oct 7 00:05:10 2014 +0200
Adding the rest of the Installer section
en-US/Installation.xml | 151 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/Installation.xml b/en-US/Installation.xml
index a92fa48..2a63c9a 100644
--- a/en-US/Installation.xml
+++ b/en-US/Installation.xml
@@ -100,4 +100,153 @@
</itemizedlist>
</section>
-</section>
+ <section id="sect-installation-kickstart">
+ <title>Changes in Kickstart Syntax</title>
+ <para>
+ This section provides a list of changes to <firstterm>Kickstart</firstterm> commands and options. A list of these changes can also be viewed using the following command on a Fedora system:
+ </para>
+ <screen><prompt>$</prompt><command>ksverdiff -f F&PREVVER; -t F&PRODVER;</command></screen>
+ <para>
+ This command will only work on Fedora &PRODVER; with the <package>pykickstart</package> package installed.
+ </para>
+
+ <section id="sect-installation-kickstart-new">
+ <title>New Commands and Options</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>fcoe --autovlan</command>: Enable automatic discovery of VLANs.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>bootloader --disabled</command>: Do not attempt to install a boot loader. This option overrides all other boot loader configuration; all other boot loader options will be ignored and no boot loader packages will be installed.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>network --interfacename=</command>: Specify a custom interface name for a VLAN device. This option should be used when the default name generated by the <option>--vlanid=</option> option is not desired, and it must always be used together with <option>--vlanid=</option>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>ostreesetup</command>: New optional command. Used for OSTree installations. Available options are:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <option>--osname=</option> (required): Management root for OS installation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <option>--remote=</option> (optional): Name of the remote repository.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <option>--url=</option> (required): Repository URL.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <option>--ref=</option> (required): Name of branch inside the repository.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <option>--nogpgcheck</option> (optional): Disable GPG key verification.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ See <ulink url="https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/OSTree" /> for more information about OSTree.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>clearpart --disklabel=</command>: Create a custom disk label when relabeling disks.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>autopart --fstype=</command>: Specify a file system type (such as <systemitem>ext4</systemitem> or <systemitem>xfs</systemitem>) to replace the default when doing automatic partitioning.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>repo --install</command>: Writes the repository information into the <filename class="directory">/etc/yum.repos.d/</filename> directory. This makes the repository configured in Kickstart available on the installed system as well.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Changes in the <command>%packages</command> section:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can now specify an <firstterm>environment</firstterm> to be installed in the <command>%packages</command> section by adding an environment name prefixed by <literal>@^</literal>. For example:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>
+%packages
+ at core
+<emphasis>@^Infrastructure Server</emphasis>
+%end
+ </programlisting>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <command>%packages --nocore</command> option can now be used to disable installing of the <literal>Core</literal> package group.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can now exclude the kernel from installing. This is done the same way as excluding any other package - by prefixing the package name with <literal>-</literal>:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>
+%packages
+ at core
+<emphasis>-kernel</emphasis>
+%end
+ </programlisting>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="sect-installation-kickstart-changed">
+ <title>Changes in Existing Commands and Options</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <command>volgroup --pesize=</command>: This option now does not have a default value in Kickstart. The default size of a new volume group's physical extents is now determined by the installer during both manual and Kickstart installation. This means that the behavior of Kickstart and manual installations is now the same. The previous default value for Kickstart installations was <literal>32768</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="sect-installation-additional-changes">
+ <title>Additional Changes</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Software RAID configuration in the graphical user interface has been tweaked.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can now use the <keycap>+</keycap> and <keycap>-</keycap> keys as shortcuts in the manual partitioning screen in the graphical user interface.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <command>ksverdiff</command> utility (part of the <package>pykickstart</package> package) has a new option: <option>--listversions</option>. Use this option to list all available operating system versions which can be used as arguments for the <option>--from=</option> and <option>--to=</option> options.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
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