KarmicKickstart
Launchpad Entry: foundations-karmic-kickstart
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Contributors: ColinWatson
Packages affected: kickseed
Summary
Ensure that we are fully compatible with Kickstart for the most common requirements and everything that is used through our installer, including RAID+LVM, encrypted partitions, and RHEL 5 Kickstart file compatibility.
Release Note
Kickstart compatibility in the installer has been updated with reference to RHEL 5.
Rationale
Our Kickstart compatibility implementation was created with reference to Red Hat Linux 9, and has not been updated to cover additions in more recent Red Hat releases. Several of the new commands are useful to administrators deploying Ubuntu.
There are some high-priority commands which were in RHL 9 but for which compatibility was never implemented in Ubuntu; we should clear these up, as they are frequently requested.
User stories
Assumptions
Design
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Implementation
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UI Changes
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Code Changes
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Migration
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Unresolved issues
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BoF agenda and discussion
Ubuntu Kickstart documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/installation-guide/i386/automatic-install.html Existing implementation: RHL 9 - http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/part-install-info.html Desired implementation: RHEL 5 - http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/ch-kickstart2.html New commands: * ignoredisk - skip specified disks in the partitioner * firstboot - control whether "Setup Agent" is started after reboot * iscsi - IP/target/port/user/password options for iSCSI installation * logging - syslog handling * mediacheck - equivalent to cdrom-checker * multipath * halt, poweroff - halt or switch off the power at end of installation rather than rebooting * repo - configure additional package sources * selinux * services - modify default set of services to run under default runlevel (probably not a good idea to try this until Upstart settles?) * vnc * would need to be added to network-console (currently SSH only) - only really useful for graphical mode New options: * 'install harddrive --biospart=BIOSID', 'part --onbiosdisk=BIOSID' (e.g. 82) - apparently with EDD * From git://git.fedorahosted.org/anaconda.git * wireless support options in 'network' command Old things we already knew weren't supported but which are important: * RAID, especially LVM-on-RAID Approximate priorities: 1. RAID 2. iSCSI Low-hanging fruit: * repo * mediacheck? * halt, poweroff Should give the configurator (system-config-kickstart) a refresh Web interface for Kickstart file generation? (Colin vaguely remembers a third-party service)