[Fedora-livecd-list] minimal with sshd

Douglas McClendon dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Sat Dec 29 15:47:33 UTC 2007


gmvects wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 20:55 -0600, Douglas McClendon wrote:
>> Vects wrote:
>>> Hello there,
>>> I want to create minimal fedora livecd with some local addons, I don't 
>>> need any desktop. I used minimal.ks but it has missed login things, 
>>> somebody could advise me what to add to livecd-fedora-minimal.ks in 
>>> order it will allow
>>> me to log in with root on any other account, plus I want to run sshd on it.
>> Can you be more specific?  Perhaps describe or file a bug claiming that 
>> the livecd-fedora-minimal.ks is broken because it doesn't do X, Y, or Z...
> I created minimal and it did work, I mean I've booted livecd, got a
> prompt, livecd-creator was working well, no bugs I've found with it.
> 
>> Other than that kind of thing, I think general questions about how to 
>> make a kickstart config that makes a system behave a certain way are 
>> off-topic for this list.  Now, if you can make a kickstart that you have 
>> tested and know can install a system with the properties you want, but 
>> livecd-creator fails to make a usable equivalent LiveCD, then that would 
>> be on-topic.
> I see, sorry my bad.
> Could somebody point out some good info about kickstart config things?
> 

This seems sparse

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f8/en_US/sn-automating-installation.html

This is where I've traditionally gone

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-kickstart2.html

In general it's mainly about the %post which is a shell script, which is 
an open door to anything a sysadmin can do from a commandline.

-dmc






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