Description of problem: Anaconda handles CD and USB installations differently, one can refer to installation CD by using device name (/dev/sd??) independent syntax ks=cdrom:/path/ks.cfg. However, for USB no similar syntax is available, using something like ks=hd:sdb1:/path/ks.cfg is dependent on the system where installation is done. It would be nice to have something like ks=src:/path/ks.cfg. It also seems that in case of ks=... path being incorrect, CD installation will automagically check for /updates directory for updates.img etc but this does not happen with USB installations. Also in this case unification between CD/USB/DVD/SD/etc would be highly beneficial as scripting to create kickstart files etc becomes much easier and with a large set of users and systems it is impossible to know all the combinations they are used beforehand.
I've never really liked the cdrom: shortcut, but it works because most people really only have one optical device. However, you can have many USB drives attached at any one time which makes providing such a shortcut a little impractical. However, recently we have added the ability to specify devices by both label and UUID. So, you could do: ks=hd:LABEL=whatever:/path/ks.cfg or ks=hd:UUID=1234-5678-9abc:/path/ks.cfg That doesn't require you to play a guessing game with device nodes between computers. Does this capability provide what you are looking for?
> ks=hd:LABEL=whatever:/path/ks.cfg or ks=hd:UUID=1234-5678-9abc:/path/ks.cfg > > That doesn't require you to play a guessing game with device nodes between > computers. Does this capability provide what you are looking for? Yes! This is exactly what I needed and - to be very honest - implemented much smarter than I was personally thinking! (As a very modest request I hope this will be added to the documentation some day :) Thanks a lot, I'll close this one!