Installation guide

autopart (optional)
Automatically create partitions — 1 GB or more root (/) partition, a swap partition, and an
appropriate boot partition for the architecture. One or more of the default partition sizes can
be redefined with the part directive.
ignoredisk (optional)
Causes the installer to ignore the specified disks. This is useful if you use autopartition and
want to be sure that some disks are ignored. For example, without ignoredisk, attempting to
deploy on a SAN-cluster the kickstart would fail, as the installer detects passive paths to the
SAN that return no partition table.
The ignoredisk option is also useful if you have multiple paths to your disks.
The syntax is:
ignoredisk --drives=drive1,drive2,...
where driveN is one of sda, sdb,..., hda,... etc.
autostep (optional)
Similar to interactive except it goes to the next screen for you. It is used mostly for debug-
ging.
--autoscreenshot
Take a screenshot at every step during installation and copy the images over to /
root/anaconda-screenshots after installation is complete. This is most useful for documenta-
tion.
auth or authconfig (required)
Sets up the authentication options for the system. It is similar to the authconfig command,
which can be run after the install. By default, passwords are normally encrypted and are not
shadowed.
--enablemd5
Use md5 encryption for user passwords.
--enablenis
Turns on NIS support. By default, --enablenis uses whatever domain it finds on the net-
work. A domain should almost always be set by hand with the --nisdomain= option.
--nisdomain=
NIS domain name to use for NIS services.
--nisserver=
Server to use for NIS services (broadcasts by default).
--useshadow or --enableshadow
Use shadow passwords.
--enableldap
Turns on LDAP support in /etc/nsswitch.conf, allowing your system to retrieve information
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