Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUAL SERVER ADMINISTRATION, Installation Manual

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Kickstart Options
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--noformat
— Tells the installation program not to format the partition, for use with the
--
onpart
command.
•
--onpart=
or
--usepart=
— Put the partition on the
already existing
device. For example:
partition ­/home ­­­onpart=hda1
puts
/home
on
/dev/hda1
, which must already exist.
•
--ondisk=
or
--ondrive=
— Forces the partition to be created on a particular disk. For
example,
--ondisk=sdb
puts the partition on the second SCSI disk on the system.
•
--asprimary
— Forces automatic allocation of the partition as a primary partition, or the
partitioning fails.
•
--type=
(replaced by
fstype
) — This option is no longer available. Use
fstype
.
•
--fstype=
— Sets the file system type for the partition. Valid values are
xfs
,
ext2
,
ext3
,
ext4
,
swap
,
vfat
, and
hfs
.
•
--start=
— Specifies the starting cylinder for the partition. It requires that a drive be specified
with
--ondisk=
or
ondrive=
. It also requires that the ending cylinder be specified with
--
end=
or the partition size be specified with
--size=
.
•
--end=
— Specifies the ending cylinder for the partition. It requires that the starting cylinder be
specified with
--start=
.
•
--bytes-per-inode=
— Specifies the size of inodes on the filesystem to be made on the
partition. Not all filesystems support this option, so it is silently ignored for those cases.
•
--recommended
— Determine the size of the partition automatically.
•
--onbiosdisk
— Forces the partition to be created on a particular disk as discovered by the
BIOS.
•
--encrypted
— Specifies that this partition should be encrypted.
•
--passphrase=
— Specifies the passphrase to use when encrypting this partition. Without the
above
--encrypted
option, this option does nothing. If no passphrase is specified, the default
system-wide one is used, or the installer will stop and prompt if there is no default.
Note
If partitioning fails for any reason, diagnostic messages appear on virtual console 3.
poweroff
(optional)
Shut down and power off the system after the installation has successfully completed. Normally
during a manual installation, anaconda displays a message and waits for the user to press a key
before rebooting. During a kickstart installation, if no completion method is specified, the
reboot
option is used as default.
The
poweroff
option is roughly equivalent to the
shutdown -p
command.