Fedora Installation :: Kickstart DVD Always Requires Internet Access
Sep 7, 2009
I'm trying to set a kickstart DVD for automatically installing Fedora 10 without touching the existing data partitions on our systems. I've got a kickstart file that works great from a kickstart server however I'm having issues with creating an unattended kickstart DVD. I've attached a copy of the kickstart file from the DVD. For some reason even though all the packages we are installing are on the DVD, anaconda always attempts to connected to the internet to get repository information after completing the partitioning. I have changed the install type to 'cdrom' before anyone asks! I have removed my %pre and %post sections as these just copy in some config files and do not touch anything other than local paths.
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Jan 19, 2009
I am running Fedora 10 new install. lsdvd gives an error when trying to access the dvd. If I issue chmod 766 /dev/dvd then it works fine. Is there a way to set this a boot so access to the dvd does not require root password?
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Mar 23, 2009
On one machine is upgraded from F7 to F10: no problems. On my second machine, I did a fresh install. I can connect to the internet via KPPP, but both Firefox & Konqueror fail to recognize that I'm online. I tried to create a network modem connection, but when I select "new" & "modem", then press the "forward" button, nothing happens.
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Jun 14, 2009
I work for AT&T and our Windows-centric workgroup is being tasked with supporting an app running on RedHat. To help my coworkers, I'm building a Fedora 11 VM that we can play with to familiarize ourselves with the UNIX environment.
Because of corporate network policies in place, my VM can't get access to the Internet.
Since we're AT&T employees, we're naturally using the korn shell on the production system. I'd like to install the korn shell on my VM. However, it doesn't appear to be part of the base fedora repository.
Is the korn shell available for Fedora? If so, how would I copy it to shiny media, mount it on my VM, and install it?
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Nov 18, 2009
I am trying to install fedora 10 kickstart on my server.But I can't, because my kickstart installation hangs at post install scripts.It is not showing any message & stopped.
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Jun 1, 2010
I have not used Fedora in a long while (since version 5 I think).I am moving back to it for my new home server but there is something that is driving me completely crazy. Can you no longer do HDD installs from a ISO?I whipped out my old kickstart files and worked off of them and all seams to be OK but every time it says it is unable to find the install source.Here are the first two lines of my KS file:
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install
harddrive --partition=sdb1 --dir=/linux_install/fedora/iso
[code]....
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Apr 11, 2010
I am trying to kickstart the F13 alpha from a usb drive.The usb drive is labeled "disk" and is setup with extlinux and can boot fine.My laptop has one hard drive (sda) and the only other drive is the usb (sdbThe ISO is copied on the root of the usb diskI extract the boot files from the F13 Alpha ISO and copy them on the disk also
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cp /mnt/ISO/images/install.img /media/disk/images/install.img
cp /mnt/ISO/isolinux/vmlinuz /media/disk/boot/Fedora/.
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May 2, 2011
Which directly is accessible during the %pre section? I try to use wget to retrieve a file from FTP to /root but after the machine is build, I don't see that file in /root directory.
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Jan 25, 2010
I want to install Red hat based custom OS in a complete automated mode.I ll have my kick start file inside the CD rom and when I boot with that ISO or CD.The OS should start installing by taking parameters from the kick start file without having to specify the path of the kick start file inside the CD.like "linux ks=<path>".Is it possible to achieve this by writing any script or something so that when the CD boots the kick start path is passed automatically to the anaconda installer.
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Oct 13, 2010
I have successfully setup a kickstart environment for installing the original Fedora 13 using PXE/DHCP/TFTP. Now I want to build a customized kernel and install it using the same Kickstart setup. After building the new kernel.rpm file, what are right steps to do to replace the original kernel rpm in Kickstart RPM directory, like fixing modules dependency, creating new bzImage and intrid etc?
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Apr 5, 2011
I'd like to write a kickstart file that installs available Fedora 14 updates as part of the installation process, much as if I was doing a standard Fedora 14 installation and had enabled the 'updates' repo.
So my question is, is there an easy way to do this? I don't want to have to go down the route of downloading all updated packages and maintaining my own update repo (or indeed, creating a repo with the dependencies listed above).
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Feb 16, 2011
couldn't find anything similar on the forum.I am writing a kickstart for fedora 14 with a partition table similar to:
part / --asprimary --fstype="ext4" --size=10000 --encrypted --passphrase=pass1
part /boot --asprimary --fstype="ext4" --size=130
part /var --fstype="ext4" --size=5000 --encrypted --passphrase=pass1
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Mar 12, 2009
"The playback of this movie requires a SMB protocol source plugin which is not installed." I get this error when I try to play a movie from a samba share. This is a fresh install of Fedora 10 KDE. I installed all the necessary codecs using the rpmfusion repo. Movies play fine if I transfer them to my computer.
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Oct 4, 2009
I have a CentOS dedicated server running ProFTP. I have created user accounts which are meant for FTP access only but the users cannot connect to the FTP unless their shell access is /bin/bash
Here is an example line that is outputted when I use this command:
This user can access the FTP fine, but he can also access SSH which I don't want to allow him to do. If I set his shell access to /bin/false then he can't connect to the FTP.
What can I use in instead of /bin/bash to allow FTP but don't allow SSH?
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Jan 4, 2009
I have recently been given the task of setting up some thirty odd netbooks with F10 and i was wondering if there is a way to generate a kickstart file from the first netbook (my one lol ) that i have setup to our needs so as to use it to create the same install on the rest of the netbooks. i had thought that i could use the anaconda-ks.cfg file in root's home dir but it is not at all representative of the custom package list i chose during the install.
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Oct 22, 2009
Fedora 11. I am trying to setup kickstart so it lays out a mirrored volume group. I have 2 disks sda and sdb. I want a primary partition on each disk 200mb in size for /boot. This is to be mirrored onto raid device md0 (raid 1). The rest of each disk is to be setup partition which grows to use the remaining space, and is also mirrored (raid 1) md1. Onto md1, I want an LVM volume group called rootvg, and logical volumes set up on there for /, /home, /usr, /tmp etc. I can lay this out manually, and it works fine. However, the code below, which is slightly amended from a previous anaconda-ks.cfg file doesn't work.
Code:
clearpart --linux --drives=sda,sdb --initlabel
part raid.11 --asprimary --size=200 --ondisk=sda
part raid.12 --grow --size=1 --ondisk=sda
part raid.21 --asprimary --size=200 --ondisk=sdb
part raid.22 --grow --size=1 --ondisk=sdb
raid /boot --fstype=ext3 --level=RAID1 --device=md0 raid.11 raid.21
raid pv.1 --level=1 --device=md1 raid.12 raid.22
volgroup rootvg --pesize=32768 pv.1
logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=rootlv01 --vgname=rootvg --size=512
logvol /home --fstype=ext4 --name=rootlv02 --vgname=rootvg --size=256
logvol /tmp --fstype=ext4 --name=rootlv03 --vgname=rootvg --size=128
logvol /usr --fstype=ext4 --name=rootlv04 --vgname=rootvg --size=3072
logvol /var --fstype=ext4 --name=rootlv05 --vgname=rootvg --size=1024
logvol /opt --fstype=ext4 --name=rootlv06 --vgname=rootvg --size=1024
logvol swap --name=LogVol06 --vgname=rootvg --size=1024
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Aug 13, 2010
I have a kickstart script that attempts to create user "joeblow" with an encrypted password. The user is created okay, but the password does not seem to "take". After installation is complete, and the system is rebooted, this is the relevant portion of /etc/passwd:
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This is the relevant portion of /etc/shadow:
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Where there are two exclamation points, I would expect the encrypted password (as is the case for the root user, which is also created in the kickstart file).
The relevant line in my kickstart file looks like this:
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That password string, which is 34 characters, is the word "password", encrypted with this command:
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Also in my kickstart file is this line:
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After the install is complete, I reboot and attempt to log in as "joeblow", but no dice. If I log in as root, and manually put the above encrypted password into /etc/shadow for jowblow, I can then log in as joeblow.
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Sep 8, 2010
I have made the ks.cfg file with system-config-kickstart and placed it in the root Disk1.iso's root directory.I then made the Disk1.iso with the changes done and burnt the whole Installation image on a CD-ROM.The machine was booted with the the Disk1 and it went well till disk partitioning.Then suddenly installation halted with a message: "Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated.
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Oct 21, 2010
I am having occasional internet connection problems on startup. 1 out of 5 times that I start my computer, I will have absolutely no internet connectivity, can't ping my router, obtain ip. nothing. Tried re-establishing connection with no luck. Status light on my router displays a slow flash. I restart, problem solved. Not so much a major problem, but irritating at times
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Aug 26, 2010
I have a linux box (fedora) with two ethernet cards eth1 and eth2. On eth1 I successfully configured a PPPOE internet connection. Such that from the server I can browse the internet. On eth2 I wired it to a wireless router essentially to provide the wireless cloud. On eth2 I also configured dhcp, such that the Linux box is both PPPOE and DHCP server.However my clients on the LAN cannot access the Internet.
On passing the routing command I get
Destination Gateway Iface
196.44.x.y 0.0.0.0 ppp0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 eth2 (my subnet)
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 ppp0.
The router (functioning as a wireless access point mainly) has a fixed IP address of 192.168.1.2 and eth2 has IP address 192.168.1.1. The dhcp file running on Linux has been set with option router (Gateway) 192.168.1.1. I cannot figure out how to correctly set the routing table such that my clients on wireless can access the internet cloud. I googled and googled but no solid solution. Any suggestions?
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Sep 19, 2009
when i got play any movie or song i got some error which show below error:The playback of this movie requires a MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder plugin which is not installed.
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Sep 5, 2010
I am using Ubuntu Studio 10.04 LTS and I am experiencing the following problem: my computer loses its Internet connection and appears to require several reboots to re-establish an Internet connection.
As suggested on a similar post relating to wireless connection loss, I supply the output of sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetLink BCM5789 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
[Code].....
Note that I have REMOVED my wireless card in case there was some kind of hardware conflict or failure. I am using a wired connection through a Linksys WRT54G router that is supplying an Internet connection to another computer and an IP phone without any problem.
When I run the command network-admin (or select System > Administration > Network) I can see only 3 tabs (General, DNS and Hosts) It seems that the Connections tab has disappeared (and I believe this happened when I upgraded from Ubuntu 9/Karmic Koala). If I click Help it shows me that there should be 4 tabs, not 3.
The connection dropping began prior to my decision to upgrade. In fact it took several attempts to complete the upgrade. Should I attempt to re-install the upgrade? I am not sure how to do it without losing my connection. When I visit System > Administration > Update Manager, I am informed that my system is up to date.
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Feb 14, 2010
This isn't an Ubuntu question as much as it is a general Linux question, but is there a text based Linux emulator (preferably BASH) similar to DOSBox?See, I need GAS, Gnu Linker, gdb... pretty much everything in binutils, as well as a platform to test my programs at school, which runs Windows. I've tried VirtualBox, VMware and QEmu; QEmu is a b**** to access any files outside of the VM, VMware is hard to get portable, and all 3 require administrator access. I've also tried CoLinux, which requires admin access, and PortableUbuntuRemix, which gives me some unnecessary GUI and slows the computer down
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Aug 25, 2011
Fedora 15 latest updatesHP Mini 210 NetbookMy internet was working fine. Then all of a sudden it stopped working on my Fedora netbook. I also have an iMac and can connect that to the internet without any problem. So my Internet connection is working fine on the iMacHowever, when I put the cable in my Fedora netbook. I get the IP address through DHCP and DNS automatically. This is the same setting as my iMac. I also have a windows partition on my Fedora netbook. That works fine, so there is no hardware problems.I can ping the router ok. But cannot pingor browse any wReturns cannot find host name google.com. So I think there is something wrong with the DNS.resolv.conf doens't have any DNS address in there. As there are assigned using DHCP.
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Mar 20, 2011
edora 15 latest updates
HP Mini 210 Netbook
My internet was working fine. Then all of a sudden it stopped working on my Fedora netbook. I also have an iMac and can connect that to the internet without any problem. So my Internet connection is working fine on the iMac However, when I put the cable in my Fedora netbook. I get the IP address through DHCP and DNS automatically. This is the same setting as my iMac. I also have a windows partition on my Fedora netbook. That works fine, so there is no hardware problems.I can ping the router ok. But cannot ping [URL] or browse any websites.nslookup [URL]. Returns cannot find host name [URL]. So I think there is something wrong with the DNS.resolv.conf doens't have any DNS address in there. As there are assigned using DHCP.
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Jan 22, 2011
I'm able to use apt-get and do updates.I cannot go to any webpages except debian.org.The same thing happened when I first installed linux mint debian 2010 on this same machine.Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III]Lenny was installed on this machine and I was able to go to any website.Do you think this will be fixed when Squeeze is officially released?
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Nov 3, 2010
Just did a fresh install of karmic due to problems with 10.04 and then 10.10. The new install sees the net ok, firefox and thunderbird work perfectly. however, updates not working. When i do sudo apt-get update it just hangs. When i open the ubuntu software center, nothing is available. Help urgently required, as I can't operate without a number of software packages I now cannot install
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Jun 27, 2010
I have configured the remote installation of Fedora 13 with kickstart with nfs installation method. All work ok until I boot the Fedora 13 client system.
Fed13 client system receives the IP address from dhcp, receives the loader, loads vmlinuz and initrd.img from tftp, load anaconda, configures the network and dev eth0, mounts nfs server to load kickstart file, loads kickstart file (language...) but when it tries to mount nfs server to install from Fedora 13 installation tree it fails.
First, I thought that I had an error on my NFS configuration but I was wrong. I opened tty with ALT+F4 on the Fedora 13 client and I sew this error:
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Is this a bug or can I modify anything to correct this error? How?
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Sep 14, 2010
I had a duplicate IP from another device on the network that would jut not let it go and was the same IP as my Fedora box that was working fine. After screwing around with the other device I finally just gave up and changed the IP on the Fedora box. Now I can't access the internet at all from the Fedora box. I looked in my routing tables in my router and the mac was showing as the mac of the other device. After some reboots here and there that is fix and the routers routing tables are now showing correctly. The Fedora box still can not resolve any domains or get online. Is there something somewhere inside the Fedora box that is still jacked up from the duplicate IP?
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Feb 7, 2010
I just installed Fedora64 12 on my laptop. When I tried the Live CD all wen well. Now that I am running the full version I can only access internet pages linked to fedoraproject.org...?? not other pages work like google or yahoo or anything else. This is bizarre. How can I get access to the full internet?
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