Bug 87578
| Summary: | kickstart doesn't support graphical install over ftp/http | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Damian Menscher <menscher> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | ellenw |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-06-25 16:28:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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The main reason is you'd have to grab 60+ MB of data and store it in RAM just to start the graphical installer up. We are considering adding this as an option however because people have machines with enough RAM to do this now. I am experiencing this same problem with RedHat 8.0. I never had this happen with my 7.1 kickstart installations. Has something changed between these versions? How can we get kickstart working now? thanks, ellenw We have graphical HTTP/FTP working in our development branch. Just to clarify, kickstart did not previously support ftp, http, or hd graphical installs. Only installs via cdrom or nfs could run in graphical mode. This has changed in the current codebase. Look for it in the next release. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: I created a fairly basic kickstart file using redhat-config-kickstart. I set it up to use a local FTP server, and to do a graphical install. Anaconda bombed out saying it doesn't support a graphical install over FTP. Changed my settings to go over HTTP, and it died there too. Changed my settings to do text-mode install, and it died because I want it to configure X. I'm running out of options here.... Is there some reason network installs don't support graphics? I can't think of any good ones.... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create kickstart file that uses ftp or http, and requires graphical install 2. 3. Additional info: