Question about kickstart / anaconda installation

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yugher
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Question about kickstart / anaconda installation

Post by yugher » 2019/04/27 11:28:36

Hi,
I am doing some experiments with kickstart installation and pxeboot.
Basically I am following "Configuring a TFTP Server for BIOS-based AMD64 and Intel 64 Clients" on official Red Hat documentation.
In pxelinux.cfg file's configuration, there is a reference of "repo":

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label linux
  menu label ^Install system
  menu default
  kernel images/RHEL-7.1/vmlinuz
  append initrd=images/RHEL-7.1/initrd.img ip=dhcp [b]inst.repo=http://10.32.5.1/mnt/archive/RHEL-7/7.x/Server/x86_64/os/[/b]
is this mutually exclusive with kickstart "--url" option?
I mean: if I would like to install with zero interaction a system (using PXE), should I provide both "inst.repo" in pxe's config, and --url in kickstart?
Thank you!

yugher
Posts: 18
Joined: 2017/02/13 19:24:40

Re: Question about kickstart / anaconda installation

Post by yugher » 2019/04/27 15:38:23

Sorry, I just realized that the inst.repo in PXE's configuration is mandatory, an allows "bootstrap" of installation process.
--url in kickstart belongs to the actual RPM repository, in order to install core, packages, and so on.
Solved :)

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