Fedora :: Putting Kickstart File Onto USB Flash Drive

Dec 1, 2009

Here is a way to prepare a USB flash drive to save your kickstart file to it, and then read the kickstart file from the USB drive during a new Fedora installation.A USB flash drive is recognised by the Linux kernel as just another hard drive.This is how I set up my USB flash drive to use it to store my kickstart file on.You will need a working Linux system to set up the USB drive.

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This is from [URL] ....

I could do two things :-

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get my flash drives working, thats how I install packages.

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Code:
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Code:
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But I get an error message:

Code:
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Now, I'm using Aubit language on GNU/Linux, and I'd like to do the same kind of thing, but I can't recall how I worked out the chars for the function keys, I'm using a different emulation (xterm), and I can't work out what characters to put in the key stroke file. My $TERM variable contains "xterm". If I type "infocmp", I get this:

Code:
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm
xterm|xterm terminal emulator (X Window System),
am, bce, km, mc5i, mir, msgr, npc, xenl,
colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#64,
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1. Is the above infocmp output the place I should get the information I need?

2. What chars do I need to put into my file to simulate me pressing F3 and F12?

3. Is there a way for me to put such chars in a file by just pressing those function keys (I tried a here document, but that doesn't work (it's as if the function keys are not even pressed)).

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Here is my script
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((count=count-1))

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Code:

<Directory "/var/www/html">
#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
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[code]....

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Code:

<Directory "/var/www/html">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from 123.456.789.098
</Directory>

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Code:
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Code:
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