Installation guide

--recommended

Determine the size of the partition automatically.

--onbiosdisk

Forces the partition to be created on a particular disk as discovered by the BIOS.

Note

If partitioning fails for any reason, diagnostic messages appear on virtual con-

sole 3.

poweroff (optional)

Shut down and power off the system after the installation has successfully completed. Nor-

mally during a manual installation, anaconda displays a message and waits for the user to

press a key before rebooting. During a kickstart installation, if no completion method is spe-

cified, the reboot option is used as default.

The poweroff option is roughly equivalent to the shutdown -p command.

Note

The poweroff option is highly dependent on the system hardware in use. Spe-

cifically, certain hardware components such as the BIOS, APM (advanced

power management), and ACPI (advanced configuration and power interface)

must be able to interact with the system kernel. Contact your manufacturer for

more information on you system's APM/ACPI abilities.

For other completion methods, refer to the halt, reboot, and shutdown kickstart options.

raid (optional)

Assembles a software RAID device. This command is of the form:

raid <mntpoint> --level=<level> --device=<mddevice><partitions*>

Location where the RAID file system is mounted. If it is /, the RAID level must be 1 unless a

boot partition (/boot) is present. If a boot partition is present, the /boot partition must be

level 1 and the root (/) partition can be any of the available types. The <partitions*> (which

denotes that multiple partitions can be listed) lists the RAID identifiers to add to the RAID ar-

ray.

--level=

RAID level to use (0, 1, or 5).

--device=

Name of the RAID device to use (such as md0 or md1). RAID devices range from md0 to

4. Kickstart Options

259