Installation guide

Tells the system to upgrade an existing system rather than install a fresh system. You must
specify one of cdrom, harddrive, nfs, or url (for FTP and HTTP) as the location of the install-
ation tree. Refer to install for details.
user (optional)
Creates a new user on the system.
user --name=<username> [--groups=<list>] [--homedir=<homedir>] [--password=<password>] [--iscrypted] [--shell=<shell>] [--uid=<uid>]
--name=
Provides the name of the user. This option is required.
--groups=
In addition to the default group, a comma separated list of group names the user should be-
long to.
--homedir=
The home directory for the user. If not provided, this defaults to /home/<username>.
--password=
The new user's password. If not provided, the account will be locked by default.
--iscrypted=
Is the password provided by --password already encrypted or not?
--shell=
The user's login shell. If not provided, this defaults to the system default.
--uid=
The user's UID. If not provided, this defaults to the next available non-system UID.
vnc (optional)
Allows the graphical installation to be viewed remotely via VNC. This method is usually pre-
ferred over text mode, as there are some size and language limitations in text installs. With
no options, this command will start a VNC server on the machine with no password and will
print out the command that needs to be run to connect a remote machine.
vnc [--host=<hostname>] [--port=<port>] [--password=<password>]
--host=
Instead of starting a VNC server on the install machine, connect to the VNC viewer process
listening on the given hostname.
--port=
Provide a port that the remote VNC viewer process is listening on. If not provided,
anaconda will use the VNC default.
--password=
Set a password which must be provided to connect to the VNC session. This is optional, but
recommended.
volgroup (optional)
Use to create a Logical Volume Management (LVM) group with the syntax:
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