[Fedora-livecd-list] specifying kickstart file upon boot of liveCD

[Douglas McClendon]

Jon Steer wrote:
> I have built a console-based LAMP LiveCD appliance. We use VMs to host the
> liveCD during the testing process.
> 
> We'd like to be able to specify a kickstart file on the boot line that would
> cause either puppet to run or other dynamic configuration tasks to occur
> without manual intervention.

This seems like it's just a matter of adding a new custom service to 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ which would do something with /proc/cmdline.  Take a 
look at how the current /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live generated in the 
%post of the standard livecd-fedora-base-desktop.ks, deals with the 
possible liveimg argument that might be in /proc/cmdline.

You could easily enough cause stuff to happen there (after fedora user 
is added), including something like (this is untested, just idea fodder, 
most likely missing quite a few needed things)-

kickstart=$( cat /proc/cmdline | \
              sed -e 's/\s/\n/g' | \
              grep "^ks" | \
              sed -e 's/ks=//' )
if [ "x${kickstart}" != "x" ]; then
     mkdir -p /home/fedora/.config/autostart
     cat <<EOF > /home/fedora/.config/autostart/kabluiprogs.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=No name
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Exec=/usr/bin/handlekickstart
EOF

     cat <<EOF > /usr/sbin/handlekickstart
#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/anaconda --kickstart=$kickstart
EOF
chmod +x /usr/bin/handlekickstart

cp -a /etc/pam.d/liveinst /etc/pam.d/handlekickstart
ln -s consolehelper /usr/bin/handlekickstart


> 
> On normal bootup of the liveCD, we would expect manual intervention.

Not sure what you mean by this, or really if what I suggested above was 
the sort of thing you had in mind.

-dmc