Raphaël - I was thinking about this sort of thing myself a few weeks ago, but just was too busy with other things to play with it. Maybe I can trick a few people to work on it with me this weekend at FUDConn ;)
Brian 2011/1/28 Raphaël De GIUSTI <[email protected]> > Hi everyone, > > I've been playing around with Amazon EC2, building my own Centos and Fedora > EBS backed AMI's without much trouble, following tutorials and other > practices I found on the internet. > > But one thing I'd like to do, and I tried to do, is kickstarting an > installation using anaconda. > > So I would have an minimal AMI that only contains a /boot directory with > vmlinuz and initrd + a /boot/grub/menu.lst file that would look like this : > > default 0 > timeout 3 > title RH-Like-OS > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz ks=http://some.server/myks.cfg > initrd /boot/initrd.img > > And it would parse my ks, start anaconda and go on with the install. > > The further I managed to go is to the partioning step with Centos55. If > someone's interested, there's my unanswered thread on amazon aws' forums > > https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=216575#216575 > > Same process with Fedora 14 only brings me to pvgrub reading the menu.lst, > then failing on a mmu_update. > > So, here come my questions: > > I was wondering what, technically speaking, prevents me from doing this. > And maybe I would understand why everyone is building the system from > scratch and why I did not find anyone who tried to do the same thing. > > Note that I'm not an expert at linux kernels or boot processes, but I'm > quite curious, and I would really appreciate if you could help me understand > :-) > > Thank you. > > raphdg > > _______________________________________________ > cloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > >
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