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Do not start the rsync daemon

Run silently. Return an exit status of 0 for success or a non-zero exit status for failure

Hostname or IP address of the image server

Do not gather partition information for DISK(s). The result of using this option, is that DISK(s) will not be partitioned during the auto-install process. You may prefix DISK with "/dev/", but it is not necessary, and a base directory of /dev/ will be assumed. Example: -e /dev/sdb -e sdc -e /dev/ida/c0d0 -e ida/c0d1

This is only used when building an RPM

Use the specified unit of measurement to save disk informations. If MB is specified the size of the partitions will be reported in absolute values, otherwise with '%' all the values will be reported in percentage relative to the total disk size. Default is MB.

Answer yes to all yes/no questions

Don't create a UYOK (Use Your Own Kernel) boot package. This option is advantageous if you know you don't need a UYOK kernel, and you want this command to complete faster.

Do not detect the kernel to use with UYOK, but instead use the file specified by the argument FILE. Use this parameter only with --modules_dir and only if you use UYOK feature.

Get kernel modules to use with UYOK from the DIR repository. Use this parameter only with --kernel and only if you use UYOK feature.

Get kernel and kernel modules automatically from the image specified by IMAGENAME to use with UYOK (if executed on image server). Use this parameter only if you use UYOK feature.

Force the use of FILESYSTEM to create the initial ramdisk. Use the filesystem name as specified in /proc/filesystems. Important: the filesystem must be statically compiled in the kernel used to install the clients.

Where FILE is the SSH2 id_dsa or id_rsa private key of the user account that the autoinstall client will use to connect to the imageserver.

Can be used when installing with the client-driven SSH transport (where clients download the image from the image server using rsync over a SSH tunnel).

WARNING: since the private key will be included into the initrd.img it is strongly recommended to not use it to install via network PXE over insecure networks, otherwise the initrd.img will be distributed clear (unencrypted).

Specifies the file that contains the public keys that can be used for user authentication from the image server to the imaging clients.

Can be used when installing with SSH transport (and the master pushes the image to the clients), or with the installation boot parameter SSHD=y, to execute commands (or open a remote shell) on the imaging clients.