network install

[Rick Thomas]

Tim,

Wow!  That's nifty!


Is it documented somewhere what all those options actually do?


Thanks!

Rick

On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 02:32 PM, Tim Moloney wrote:

> Steve Reddehase wrote:
>
>> Does yellow dog linux have anything like kickstart that's available
>> on red hat for network installs?
>
> Yes, they do.  It's called... kickstart.  =)
>
> Kickstart is part of the Anaconda installer, so when Terrasoft started
> using Anaconda, they greatly improved Yellow Dog Linux's ability for
> unattended and network installations.
>
> There are a few gotchas that I know of.  For any of the network
> installations, the ramdisk size in the installation kernel needs
> to be 16384 kB, not the default 4096 kb in the kernel, nor the
> 8192 kb specified in the yaboot.conf on the CD.  Also the
> partitioning support is different than what Red Hat provides to
> handle Mac-specific things.  Unfortunately, it's not documented
> anywhere that I've seen.
>
> As an example, I've attached a working kickstart file that I've
> used to perform an unattended installation over the network onto
> a PowerMac G4.
>
> -- Tim Moloney
> ManTech Real-time Systems Laboratory
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> #
> #  powermac-g4.ks.template
> #
> #  Kickstart file manually generated by Tim Moloney 
> (moloney@mrsl.com) for the
> #  Apple PowerMac G4 since the version of anaconda used by Yellow 
> Dog Linux
> #  does not automatically generate a kickstart file.
> #
> #  To use this file, customize it as necessary, save the results to
> #  powermac-g4.ks in a directory served by a web server, and use
> #  the "ks=<url>" kernel argument at the "boot:" prompt.  For example,
> #
> #    boot: install ks=http://www.domain.com/powermac-g4.ks
> #
>
> install
> #cdrom
> url --url http://www.domain.com/custom/ppc
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> langsupport --default en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> mouse generic1usb --device input/mice
> xconfig --card "ATI Rage 128" --videoram 16384 --monitor "My 
> Monitor" --resolution 1024x768 --depth 16 --startxonboot 
> --defaultdesktop gnome
> network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
> rootpw changeme
> firewall --disabled
> authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
> timezone --utc America/New_York
> bootloader --location=none
> reboot
> clearpart --all
> part /yaboot --size    1 --fstype "Apple Bootstrap"
> part swap    --size  256 --fstype swap
> part /       --size 5120 --fstype ext3 --grow
>
> %packages
> @ Everything
>
> %post
>
> #
> #  Cleanup from odd/incomplete handling of partitions in the 
> Yellow Dog Linux
> #  version of anaconda/kickstart.
> #
> mkdir /yaboot
> mv /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.orig
> sed -e '/Apple Bootstrap/d' < /etc/fstab.orig > /etc/fstab