Installation guide

ks=nfs:<server>:/<path>
The installation program looks for the kickstart file on the NFS server <server>, as file
<path>. The installation program uses DHCP to configure the Ethernet card. For example, if
your NFS server is server.example.com and the kickstart file is in the NFS share
/mydir/ks.cfg, the correct boot command would be
ks=nfs:server.example.com:/mydir/ks.cfg.
ks=http://<server>/<path>
The installation program looks for the kickstart file on the HTTP server <server>, as file
<path>. The installation program uses DHCP to configure the Ethernet card. For example, if
your HTTP server is server.example.com and the kickstart file is in the HTTP directory
/mydir/ks.cfg, the correct boot command would be
ks=http://server.example.com/mydir/ks.cfg.
ks=floppy
The installation program looks for the file ks.cfg on a vfat or ext2 file system on the
diskette in /dev/fd0.
ks=floppy:/<path>
The installation program looks for the kickstart file on the diskette in /dev/fd0, as file
<path>.
ks=hd:<device>:/<file>
The installation program mounts the file system on <device> (which must be vfat or ext2),
and look for the kickstart configuration file as <file> in that file system (for example,
ks=hd:sda3:/mydir/ks.cfg).
ks=file:/<file>
The installation program tries to read the file <file> from the file system; no mounts are done.
This is normally used if the kickstart file is already on the initrd image.
ks=cdrom:/<path>
The installation program looks for the kickstart file on CD-ROM, as file <path>.
ks
If ks is used alone, the installation program configures the Ethernet card to use DHCP. The
kickstart file is read from the "bootServer" from the DHCP response as if it is an NFS server
sharing the kickstart file. By default, the bootServer is the same as the DHCP server. The
name of the kickstart file is one of the following:
If DHCP is specified and the boot file begins with a /, the boot file provided by DHCP is
looked for on the NFS server.
If DHCP is specified and the boot file begins with something other than a /, the boot file
provided by DHCP is looked for in the /kickstart directory on the NFS server.
If DHCP did not specify a boot file, then the installation program tries to read the file
/kickstart/1.2.3.4-kickstart, where 1.2.3.4 is the numeric IP address of the
machine being installed.
ksdevice=<device>
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