how to install from kickstart

Hello all:
im trying to automate installation process. i have created a ks.cfg
file on linux fedora core2 machine and now i want to install
automaticlly a diffrenet machine using this file - how do i do that?
should i burn boot.img and the ks.cfg file on a cd and that's it?
cause its too little....where are all the rpm's? what about the
original installation cd's? something is missing....

On 2004-10-19, Yael <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> automaticlly a diffrenet machine using this file - how do i do that?

Put your ks.cfg on a floppy and at boot, type linux ks=floppy
Davide

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yes but were does the installation take the RPM's from?

On 2004-10-20, Yael <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> yes but were does the installation take the RPM's from?

Wherever you told him to. If you booted from CD, chances are that the CD
will be used as source of installation.
Davide

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Yael <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> yes but were does the installation take the RPM's from?

If this is your first kickstart attempt, then just specify "cdrom"
as source of all the RPMs, and put just ks.cfg file onto bootable
floppy. Also, for the 1st time add "skipx" to avoid X configuration.

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andrei

great - i do want the installation to take rpm's from a cd but the
question is where do i tell the installation to take rpms from a cd???
is there an option in the ks.cfg to specify a path for rpms?? this is
what i dont understand...

Yael <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> great - i do want the installation to take rpm's from a cd but the
> question is where do i tell the installation to take rpms from a cd???
> is there an option in the ks.cfg to specify a path for rpms??

In fact, it's the first command in the ks.cfg file, which specifies
where to look for packages. It might be just "cdrom" for local CD-drive,
or "url --url ..." for reference to FTP/HTTP/NFS storage.

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andrei