Unattended Fedora kickstart that works as CD/DVD and USB

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Published on 2012-06-19T02:00:53Z Indexed on 2012/06/19 3:17 UTC
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Is it possible to create one ISO with one kickstart file that will work correctly when written to CD/DVD and as a USB?

As far as I can tell I need two separate versions as modifications are needed in isolinux.cfg (ks=) and ks.cfg (because I access the install media in %post)

It seems odd isolinux.cfg doesn't default to the root of the installation media and that kickstart doesn't have a global define for the source media device.

Or is there an alternative to kickstart?

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