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[Bug 1893428] New: netinstall image requirement for using kickstart could be made clearer
by bugzilla＠redhat.com 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1893428 Bug ID: 1893428 Summary: netinstall image requirement for using kickstart could be made clearer Product: Fedora Documentation Version: devel Status: NEW Component: install-guide Severity: low Assignee: pbokoc(a)redhat.com Reporter: glaebhoerl(a)gmail.com QA Contact: docs-qa(a)lists.fedoraproject.org CC: pbokoc(a)redhat.com, zach(a)oglesby.co Target Milestone: --- Classification: Fedora Based on the https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f33/install-guide/advanced/Kick… page, I attempted to add an inst.ks= boot option to my Fedora Workstation installation image (after copying its contents to a FAT32 filesystem). This resulted, when beginning the installation, in the message: "Kickstart is not supported on live installs. This installation will continue interactively." Googling for this message found single-digit hits, almost all of which were for the several-years-old commit which originally added the message. It was very unclear to me what I should have been doing instead, and spent most of a day fruitlessly googling to try to find out. Every page only ever said that I needed to add a boot option to the kernel command line of the installer (which is what I believed myself to be doing), and went from there. The root of the issue is that it was not apparent to me what the alternative to a "live install" was, or how to activate it. (Maybe I needed to pass different boot options so that it would boot directly into the installer?? I spent a while trying different ways to achieve this.) "Kickstart is not supported on live installs" may have been sufficient information back in the day when live and non-live installation images were provided side by side, but these days, at least for the Workstation version, live is the only download option prominently visible, and it is not even called out as being such. Finally, after trying the twentieth combination of search terms, I found that the page https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f33/install-guide/install/Prepa… mentions that "Kickstart installation requires the netinstall media type, or a direct installation booting method such as PXE; kickstarts are not supported with live images". I admit that if I had read all of the instructions linearly from beginning to end, then I would probably not have had this problem. Nonetheless, I humbly suggest that if the "Automating the Installation with Kickstart" page also made some mention of this requirement, it would be a helpful thing. In addition, it might be helpful to extend the "kickstart is not supported on live installs" error message with some mention of the suggested alternatives as well. Thank you for your work and attention. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug.

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