[Libosinfo] [PATCH v3 3/7] debian: add installer script

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan at redhat.com> wrote:
> "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org> writes:
>
>>> unfortunately not.  I have used the following arguments to virt-install:
>>
>> I'm confused now, 'not' here means we do or do not need commandline?
>> Since you said "unfortunately", i guess we *do* need it. In that case,
>> you need to provide the comamndline template in your script.
>
> yes, it means we need a commandline :-)
>
>>
>>> virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name debian_tmp \
>>>   --initrd-inject=debian.ks --ram 1024 --hvm --disk=debian_tmp.img,size=10 \
>>>   --location='http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-amd64/' \
>>>   --extra="file=/debian.ks auto-install/enable \
>>>   keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap=us debian-installer/keymap=us \
>>>   debian-installer/locale=en_US.UTF-8 console-setup/ask_detect=false \
>>>   console-keymaps-at/keymap=us console-setup/layoutcode=en_US \
>>>   debconf/priority=critical netcfg/choose_interface=auto"
>>
>> Sorry but I don't know much about virt-install. :(
>
> the --extra argument is the actual commandline.  I have changed the
> installation script to include this information.  I will test my changes
> and post v4 later.

Cool, in this case its easy as app doesn't have any other choice but
initrd so you can basically just hardcode the commandline but how
would it work for fedora? As I pointed out before, the commandlines
are assuming the script to be on disk pointed out by 'script-disk'
parameter.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124