Installation guide

monitor (optional)
If the monitor command is not given, anaconda will use X to automatically detect your mon-
itor settings. Please try this before manually configuring your monitor.
--hsync=
Specifies the horizontal sync frequency of the monitor.
--monitor=
Use specified monitor; monitor name should be from the list of monitors in /
usr/share/hwdata/MonitorsDB from the hwdata package. The list of monitors can also be
found on the X Configuration screen of the Kickstart Configurator. This is ignored if --hsync
or --vsync is provided. If no monitor information is provided, the installation program tries to
probe for it automatically.
--noprobe=
Do not try to probe the monitor.
--vsync=
Specifies the vertical sync frequency of the monitor.
mouse (deprecated)
The mouse keyword is deprecated and its use will now cause an error message to be prin-
ted to the screen and installation to halt.
network (optional)
Configures network information for the system. If the kickstart installation does not require
networking (in other words, it is not installed over NFS, HTTP, or FTP), networking is not
configured for the system. If the installation does require networking and network informa-
tion is not provided in the kickstart file, the installation program assumes that the installation
should be done over eth0 via a dynamic IP address (BOOTP/DHCP), and configures the fi-
nal, installed system to determine its IP address dynamically. The network option configures
networking information for kickstart installations via a network as well as for the installed
system.
--bootproto=
One of dhcp, bootp, or static.
It defaults to dhcp. bootp and dhcp are treated the same.
The DHCP method uses a DHCP server system to obtain its networking configuration. As
you might guess, the BOOTP method is similar, requiring a BOOTP server to supply the
networking configuration. To direct a system to use DHCP:
network --bootproto=dhcp
To direct a machine to use BOOTP to obtain its networking configuration, use the following
line in the kickstart file:
network --bootproto=bootp
The static method requires that you enter all the required networking information in the kick-
4. Kickstart Options
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