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Creates a new virtual disk.
<name>-<system-uuid>/
default-<name>.vmdk
--size=
--path=
--onvmfs=
--onfirstvmfs=
(<disk-type1>,
[<disk-type2>,...])
%include or include
Specifies an additional installation script to parse. You can add several include commands to your script. When
you use the
%include
<filename>
%packages
Adds or removes a package from the installation ISO image.
requirement="recommended"
packages.xml
%packages
-<package_name> # The package will not be installed.
The requirement="optional" tag means that the package is not installed by default. To override the default
setting in the script, include:
%packages
<package_name> # The package will be installed.
--resolvedeps
--ignoredeps
%pre (optional)
Specifies a script to be executed before the kickstart configuration is evaluated. For example, a
generate include files, as shown here:
# Partitioning
%include part.cfg
...
%pre
cat > /tmp/part.cfg <<EOF
part /boot --fstype=ext3 --size= --onfirstdisk
part storage1 --fstype=vmfs3 --size=10000 --grow --onfirstdisk
part None --fstype=vmkcore --size=100 --onfirstdisk
EOF
--interpreter
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Specifies the name of the virtual disk. If you omit the --path= option, the name
of the VMDK is
<name>/default-<name>.vmdk
Specifies the size of the virtual disk in megabytes.
Specifies the location where the virtual disk is created. The path must include
a directory and a filename ending in
.
cos.vmdk
Specifies the name of the VMFS volume where the VMDK file is created.
Uses the first VMFS volume on a disk that matches the given description and
has more free space than the requested size. Uses the same argument format as
.
autopart
command, put the <filename> argument on the same line as the command.
For example:
%include part.cfg
Installs the listed packages and automatically resolves package dependencies.
Ignores the unresolved dependencies and installs the listed packages without
the dependencies.
Specifies an interpreter to use. The default is bash.
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. For example:
.vmdk cos/default-
script can
%pre
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