On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:02:41PM +0100, Martin Ellis wrote: [...] Kickstart is the anaconda-equivalent of preseeding.
> I've been trying to use preseeding [1] to automate installations of > Debian-based VMs. > [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apb.html Another way to do this is with guestfish or virt-make-fs. You can make a virtual disk which contains any file(s) you like, so you'd do something like: mkdir /tmp/data vi /tmp/data/preseed virt-make-fs --partition --type=ext3 --size=10G -- /tmp/data disk.img Then if you boot with disk.img attached, the file will appear as '<mountpoint>/preseed'. Recent versions of guestfish let you do clever stuff like: guestfish -N bootroot:ext2:ext4:10G:256M -m /dev/sda2 <<EOF upload /tmp/data/preseed /preseed EOF which will create a partitioned boot/root disk image (test1.img) with the /preseed file on virtual /dev/sda2. Note you don't need root permissions to do any of this. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list