cmdline Force command line installation mode. This mode simply prints out text and does not allow any interactivity. All options must be specified either in a kickstart file or on the command line. If all required options are not specified, the installation will terminate immediately. If running in PXE, network or media installation mode Anaconda will also reboot the machine. This can be prevented by passing the "inst.nokill" boot option. graphical Force graphical installation. A graphical installation implies that the installed system will boot up into graphical.target, using whichever display manager is in use by the default desktop (gdm for GNOME, kdm for KDE). text Force text mode installation. This also implies that the installed system will boot up in text mode instead of to the graphical login screen. proxy Use the given proxy settings when performing an installation from a HTTP/HTTPS/FTP source. The PROXY_URL can be specified like this: [PROTOCOL://][USERNAME[:PASSWORD]@]HOST[:PORT] debug Show debug level messages in the log watching consoles. This basically a shortcut for for loglevel=debug. ks Gives the location of the kickstart file to be used for installation. The KICKSTART_URL supports fetching kickstarts from HTTP/S, FTP, NFS, from a local file, from a local harddrive, from an optical disk and from BIOS RAID sets. For details on the KICKSTART_URL syntax see the Anaconda options wiki page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options kickstart Gives the local file path to use for kickstart. Normally only used when running anaconda from the cmdline. This option is not supported for live installations. rescue Start the rescue environment instead of installation. This option is not supported for live installations. armplatform Can be used to specify the ARM platform for the installation by passing the appropriate PLATFORM_ID. multilib Enable dnf's multlib_policy of "all" instead of the default of "best". method This option is deprecated in favor of the repo option. For now, it does the same thing as repo, but will be removed in the future. askmethod Do not automatically configure the Installation Source spoke, but require the user to enter it and choose an option. If you don't want to wait for the default configuration to be processed before you can enter the spoke and change it, you can pass this option. repo This option tells Anaconda where to find the packages for installation. This option must point to a valid package repository (or, for some protocols, a Fedora DVD ISO image). It is analogous to the older method option, but repo makes it more clear exactly what is meant. This option may appear only once on the command line. It corresponds to the kickstart command install (whereas kickstart command repo is used for additional repositories). As of Fedora 16, you can (optionally) add a specific .iso file to the path. If no inst.root or inst.stage2 parameter is passed, this location will also be used as the source for the installer runtime image. For more information about the REPO_URL format check the Anaconda option documentation, available on: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options stage2 The STAGE2_URL specifies a path to a repository containing a stage2 (squashfs.img) file instead of to an installation source. Follows the same syntax as the repo option. If this parameter is provided, it takes precedence over all other methods of finding the install.img. Otherwise, Anaconda will attempt to find the install.img first on any existing CD, and then from the location given by repo. If only the stage2 option is given without repo, Anaconda will use whatever repos the installed system would have enabled by default for installation. For instance, an install of a Fedora release will attempt to use the Fedora mirrorlist given by /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo from that release. noverifyssl Prevents Anaconda from verifying the ssl certificate for all HTTPS connections with an exception of the additional kickstart repos (where --noverifyssl can be set per repo). liveinst Run in live installation mode. resolution Run GUI installer in the resolution specified, "1024x768" for example. usefbx Use the framebuffer X driver instead of attempting to use a hardware-specific one. vnc Enable VNC-based installation. You will need to connect to the machine using a VNC client application. A VNC install implies that the installed system will boot up in runlevel 3 instead of to the graphical login screen. The VNC session will be shared. Consider setting a VNC password using the vncpassword option. vncconnect Once installation is up and running, connect to the VNC client named HOST, and optionally use port PORT. vncpassword Enable a password for the VNC connection. This will prevent someone from inadvertently connecting to the vnc-based installation. Requires the VNC option to be specified as well. If you have specified vncconnect the PASSWORD will not be used unless connection to host is not possible. Please note that the password needs to be 6 to 8 characters long (limitation of the VNC protocol). xdriver Use DRIVER as the X driver to use during installation as well as on the installed system. keymap Keyboard layout to use during installation and on the installed system. Valid KEYMAP values are those which can be used for the keyboard kickstart command. lang Language to use for the installation. LANG should be a language code which is valid to be used with the lang kickstart command. singlelang Install in single language mode - no interactive options for language configuration will be available. loglevel Set the minimum level required for messages to be logged on a terminal (log files always contain messages of all levels). Values for LEVEL are "debug", "info", "warning", "error", "critical" and "lock" (the "lock" level has been added in F21 and is used for debugging dnf locking). The default value is "info". syslog Once installation is up and running, send log messages to the syslog process on HOST, and optionally, on TCP port PORT. Requires the remote syslog process to accept incoming connections. noselinux Disable SELinux usage on the installed system. selinux Enable SELinux usage in the installed system (default). Note that when used as a boot option, "selinux" and "inst.selinux" are not the same. The "selinux" option is picked up by both the kernel and Anaconda, but "inst.selinux" is processed only by Anaconda. So when "selinux=0" is used, SELinux will be disabled both in the installation environment and in the installed system, but when "inst.selinux=0" is used SELinux will only be disabled in the installed system. Also note that while SELinux is running in the installation environment by default, it is running in permissive mode so disabling it there does not make much sense. nompath Disable support for multipath devices. This is for systems on which a false-positive is encountered which erroneously identifies a normal block device as a multipath device. There is no other reason to use this option. Warning: Don't use nompath with actual multipath hardware! Using this to attempt to install to a single path of a multipath is ill-advised, and not supported. mpath Enable multipath support during the installation (default) nodmraid Disable dmraid usage during the installation. dmraid Enable dmraid (Device Mapper software RAID) usage during the installation (default). noibft Disable iBFT usage during the installation. ibft Enable iBFT (iSCSI Boot Firmware Table) usage during the installation (default). geoloc Configure geolocation usage in Anaconda. Geolocation is used to pre-set language and time zone. The following values for PROVIDER_ID are supported: 0 - disable geolocation, "provider_fedora_geoip" - use the Fedora GeoIP API (default) and "provider_hostip" - use the Hostip.info GeoIP API. nomount Don't automatically mount any installed Linux partitions in rescue mode. updates Path to an updates image that is on local filesystem or available over FTP or HTTP. UPDATES_URL must be either a local filesystem path, a network URL or : where can be one of sdX, /dev/sdX, LABEL=xxx, UUID=xxx and defaults to /updates.img if missing. See the Anaconda docs for more details about the path specification. Please note that the updates image only updates the installation environment and is completely unrelated to package updates. dirinstall Use the device mounted at /mnt/sysimage as the installation destination. The --dirinstall and --image options are mutually exclusive. The /mnt/sysimage directory can be overridden by setting the ANACONDA_ROOT_PATH environmental variable before starting anaconda. image Specification of disk image file to be used as installation destination. IMAGE_SPEC must have format [:] where specifies the path of an image file and an optional component is used to identify the disk during installation. must be a local path but it may be relative or absolute. If is not specified, a name is synthesized from the basename of . may not contain a colon or a slash. This option may be used multiple times to specify multiple disk images. It is an error to specify the same twice or to use duplicate names. The --image and --dirinstall options are mutually exclusive. memcheck Check if the system has enough RAM to complete the installation and abort if it doesn't. Please note that this check is approximate and that memory usage during installation depends on the package selection, user interface (graphical vs text) and other parameters. nomemcheck Do not check if the system has enough RAM to complete the installation. Of course, any attempt to install with less than the safe minimum amount of memory may fail and is unsupported. leavebootorder Boot the drives in their existing order, to override the default of booting into the newly installed drive on Power Systems servers and EFI systems. This is useful for systems that, for example, should network boot first before falling back to a local boot. noeject Don't eject the installation CD/DVD (if any) once the installation has been completed. Ignored for image, directory and livecd installs. extlinux Use extlinux as the bootloader. Note that there's no attempt to validate that this will work for your platform or anything; it assumes that if you ask for it, you want to try. nombr If nombr is specified the grub2 bootloader will be installed but the MBR will not be updated. Therefore, when the system reboot, a previously installed OS will be booted. /etc/grub.d/40_custom can be used with manually created menuentrys which can use configfile to point to the grub.cfg on the newly installed OS. mpathfriendlynames Tell multipathd to use user friendly names when naming devices during the installation. See the multipathd documentation for more info. remotelog Send all the logs to a remote host:port using a TCP connection. The connection will be retried if there is no listener (ie. won't block the installation). kexec Reboot the system using kexec with the new kernel and initrd. This will result in a faster reboot by skipping the BIOS/Firmware and bootloader steps. nosave This option controls what installation results should not be saved to the installed system, valid values are: "input_ks", "output_ks", "all_ks", "logs" and "all". The "input_ks" value disables saving of the input kickstart (if any), "output_ks" disables saving of the output kickstart generated by Anaconda, "all_ks" disables saving of both input and output kickstarts, "logs" disables saving of all installation logs and "all" disables saving of all kickstarts and all logs. Multiple values can be combined as a comma separated list, for example: "all_ks,logs" legacygrub Enable legacygrub (for installing older OSes). You probably do not want this.