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To begin a kickstart installation, you must boot the system from a Red Hat Linux
boot diskette or the CD-ROM and enter a special boot command at the boot prompt. If the
kickstart file is located on a boot diskette that was created from the
boot.img or bootnet.img image
file, the correct boot command would be:
The linux ks=floppy command also works if the
ks.cfg file is located on a vfat filesystem on a
floppy diskette and you boot from the Red Hat Linux CD-ROM.
An alternate boot command for booting off the Red Hat Linux CD-ROM and having the
kickstart file on a vfat filesystem on a floppy diskette is:
boot: linux ks=hd:fd0/ks.cfg |
If you need to use a driver disk with kickstart, you can still have the
kickstart file on a floppy disk:
The Red Hat Linux installation program looks for a kickstart file if the
ks command line argument is passed to the kernel.
The command line argument can take a number of forms:
- ks=nfs:<server>:/<path>
The installation program will look for the kickstart file on the NFS
server <server>, as file
<path>. The installation program
will use DHCP to configure the Ethernet card. For example, if your
NFS server is server.example.com and the kickstart file is in the
NFS share /mydir/ks.cfg, the correct boot command would be
ks=nfs:server.example.com:/mydir/ks.cfg.
- ks=http:<server>:/<path>
The installation program will look for the kickstart file on the HTTP
server <server>:, as file
<path>. The installation program
will use DHCP to configure the Ethernet card. For example, if your
HTTP server is server.example.com and the kickstart file is in the
HTTP directory /mydir/ks.cfg, the correct boot command would be
ks=http:server.example.com:/mydir/ks.cfg.
- ks=floppy
The installation program looks for the file
ks.cfg on a vfat filesystem on the floppy in
drive /dev/fd0.
- ks=hd:<device>/<file>
The installation program will mount the filesystem on
<device> (which must be vfat or
ext2), and look for the kickstart configuration file as
<file> in that filesystem (for
example, ks=hd:sda3/mydir/ks.cfg).
- ks=file:/<file>
The installation program will try to read the file
<file> from the filesystem; no
mounts will be done. This is normally used if the kickstart file
is already on the initrd image.
- ks=cdrom:/<path>
The installation program will look for the kickstart file on
CD-ROM, as file <path>.
- ks
If ks is used alone, the installation program
will configure the Ethernet card in the system using DHCP. The
system will use the "bootServer" from the DHCP response as an NFS
server to read the kickstart file from (by default, this is the
same as the DHCP server). The name of the kickstart file is one
of the following:
If DHCP is specified and the bootfile begins with a
/, the bootfile provided by DHCP is looked for
on the NFS server.
If DHCP is specified and the bootfile begins with
something other then a /,
the bootfile provided by DHCP is looked for in the
/kickstart directory on the NFS server.
If DHCP did not specify a bootfile, then the installation
program tries to read the file
/kickstart/1.2.3.4-kickstart, where
1.2.3.4 is the numeric IP address
of the machine being installed.
- ksdevice=<device>
The installation program will use this network device to connect
to the network. For example, to start a kickstart installation
with the kickstart file on an nfs server that is connected to the
system through the eth1 device, use the command
ks=nfs:<server:>/<path>
ksdevice=eth1 at the boot: prompt.
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