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

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Starting a Kickstart Installation
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ks=floppy:/ <path>
The installation program looks for the kickstart file on the diskette in
/dev/fd0
, as file
<path>
.
ks=hd: <device> :/ <file>
The installation program mounts the file system on
<device>
(which must be vfat or ext2), and
look for the kickstart configuration file as
<file>
in that file system (for example,
ks=hd:sda3:/
mydir/ks.cfg
).
ks=file:/ <file>
The installation program tries to read the file
<file>
from the file system; no mounts are done.
This is normally used if the kickstart file is already on the
initrd
image.
ks=cdrom:/ <path>
The installation program looks for the kickstart file on CD-ROM, as file
<path>
.
ks
If
ks
is used alone, the installation program configures the Ethernet card to use DHCP. The
kickstart file is read from the "bootServer" from the DHCP response as if it is an NFS server
sharing the kickstart file. By default, the bootServer is the same as the DHCP server. The name of
the kickstart file is one of the following:
• If DHCP is specified and the boot file begins with a
/
, the boot file provided by DHCP is looked
for on the NFS server.
• If DHCP is specified and the boot file begins with something other than a
/
, the boot file
provided by DHCP is looked for in the
/kickstart
directory on the NFS server.
• If DHCP did not specify a boot file, 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 uses this network device to connect to the network. For example,
consider a system connected to an NFS server through the eth1 device. To perform a kickstart
installation on this system using a kickstart file from the NFS server, you would use the command
ks=nfs: <server> :/ <path> ksdevice=eth1
at the
boot:
prompt.
kssendmac
Adds HTTP headers to ks=http:// request that can be helpful for provisioning systems. Includes
MAC address of all nics in CGI environment variables of the form: "X-RHN-Provisioning-MAC-0:
eth0 01:23:45:67:89:ab".
lang= <lang>
Language to use for the installation. This should be a language which is valid to be used with the
'lang' kickstart command.
loglevel= <level>
Set the minimum level required for messages to be logged. Values for <level> are debug, info,
warning, error, and critical. The default value is info.
lowres
Force GUI installer to run at 640x480.