Installation guide

--enablesmbauth — Enables authentication of users against an SMB server (typically
a Samba or Windows server). SMB authentication support does not know about home
directories, UIDs, or shells. If you enable SMB, you must make users' accounts known to
the workstation by enabling LDAP, NIS, or Hesiod or by using the
/usr/sbin/useradd command to make their accounts known to the workstation. To
use this option, you must have the pam_smb package installed.
--smbservers= — The name of the server(s) to use for SMB authentication. To specify
more than one server, separate the names with commas (,).
--smbworkgroup= — The name of the workgroup for the SMB servers.
--enablecache — Enables the nscd service. The nscd service caches information
about users, groups, and various other types of information. Caching is especially
helpful if you choose to distribute information about users and groups over your
network using NIS, LDAP, or hesiod.
--passalgo — Enables SHA256 or SHA512 hashing for passphrases. Use --
passalgo=sha256 or --passalgo=sha512 and remove the --enablemd5 if present.
bootloader ( req u ired )
Specifies how the boot loader should be installed. This option is required for both
installations and upgrades.
--append= — Specifies kernel parameters. To specify multiple parameters, separate
them with spaces. For example:
bootloader --location=mbr --append="hdd=ide-scsi ide=nodma"
--driveorder — Specify which drive is first in the BIOS boot order. For example:
bootloader --driveorder=sda,hda
--hvargs — If using G RU B , specifies Xen hypervisor arguments. To specify multiple
parameters, separate them with spaces. For example:
bootloader --hvargs="dom0_mem=2G dom0_max_vcpus=4"
--location= — Specifies where the boot record is written. Valid values are the
following: mbr (the default), partition (installs the boot loader on the first sector of the
partition containing the kernel), or none (do not install the boot loader).
--password= — If using GRUB, sets the GRUB boot loader password to the one
specified with this option. This should be used to restrict access to the GRUB shell,
where arbitrary kernel options can be passed.
--md5pass= — If using GRUB, similar to --password= except the password should
already be encrypted.
--upgrade — Upgrade the existing boot loader configuration, preserving the old
entries. This option is only available for upgrades.
clearpart ( o p t io n al)
Removes partitions from the system, prior to creation of new partitions. By default, no
partitions are removed.
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