[Fedora-livecd-list] launch anaconda & kickstart from running livecd

Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip at kanarip.com
Fri Oct 16 06:57:17 UTC 2009


On 10/15/2009 08:03 PM, Peter Scheie wrote:
>> From a running Centos liveCD (minimal) I want to launch anaconda with a
> kickstart file.  Right now we build a small ISO using isolinux that
> loads the kernel and points it to the kickstart file on an HTTP server
> (ks=http://blah.blah.blah/ks.cfg).  But I want to gather some info from
> the user and test some networking connections before launching anaconda,
> thus the need for the liveCD.  I've got anaconda included in the livecd
> and I can call it, but when I try to pass
> --kickstart=http://blah.blah.blah/ks.cfg, it says 'no method specified'.
> So, I added -m http:// with a path to the repos we use with our regular
> installer, but while anaconda starts, it starts asking questions about
> language, keyboard, etc., meaning it's not reading the kickstart file.
>

This seems more like an anaconda question then a livecd question, don't 
you think?

-- Jeroen




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