On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 13:48 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
On 05/02/2012 01:28 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 07:36 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
>>> Here is the "default" I use. Askmothod is ignored.
>>> I installed 3312 apps on the last pxeboot install.
>> Don't use root= argument, that might cause a lot of problems, just repo=.
>>
>> Please don't top-post.
> Have we checked that the need for repo= is documented in the release
> notes and/or install guide? If not, does anyone want to volunteer? :)
root= is no longer needed.
If one leaves off repo= will Anaconda ask for it?
No, that's where we came in: if you leave repo= off, stuff breaks.
I've just talked to wwoods about this and sent a mail to docs@.
When doing a direct kernel boot (e.g. PXE) you have to specify either
repo= or stage2= , pointing to a repository with a stage2 file in it -
i.e. you point to the directory with a .treeinfo file, and a
subdirectory LiveOS with a file squashfs.img in it. If the repo you're
pointing to is a complete one - i.e. it also has packages, all the
packages you need for the install you're doing, and you want to use it
as the package repo - then use repo= . If the repo you're pointing to
for stage2 is a skeleton that only contains squashfs.img (in the correct
layout, of course) and you want to pull the packages from somewhere
else, use stage2= to point to the stage2 repo and either leave repo= out
(in which case anaconda will use the default mirror list repos, as
usual) or specify both stage2= and repo= . If you specify both, anaconda
will pull stage2 from the 'stage2=' repo and packages from the 'repo='
repo.
We're not sure anyone's actually tested the stage2= parameter
functionality, so if anyone wants to test that, please do.
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