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Arthur Zou 2955b1d298 Add addon po file to support i18n Just merge the kdump-anadonda-addon.pot to po files of original firstboot so that we can reuse most of the translation. But there still are three sentences that has no translation. Signed-off-by: Arthur Zou <zzou@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>		2014-05-20 16:05:57 +08:00
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com_redhat_kdump	Add a anaconda addon to configurate kdump in the system installation process	2014-05-20 16:05:54 +08:00
po	Add addon po file to support i18n	2014-05-20 16:05:57 +08:00
Makefile	Add a anaconda addon to configurate kdump in the system installation process	2014-05-20 16:05:54 +08:00
README	Add a anaconda addon to configurate kdump in the system installation process	2014-05-20 16:05:54 +08:00

README

This is an anaconda addon for configuring kdump. To use, copy the
com_redhat_kdump directory into /usr/share/anaconda/addons on your
installation media. 

The syntax of the addon's kickstart section is:

%addon com_redhat_kdump (--enable|--disable) --reserve-mb=("auto"|<amount>)
%end

Note that support for arguments on the %addon line was added in
anaconda-21.23. See anaconda commit 3a512e4f9e15977f0ce2d0bbe39e841b881398f3,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065674

How to test the kdump-anaconda-addon?
You can provide an updates image in the kernel boot arguments as updates=,
and the contents will be added to the stage2 filesystem.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates has more details, but usually
the easiest is to make it available via HTTP or FTP and provide a url to updates=.

The file is a gzip-compressed cpio archive, and the files need to be put into
stage2 in /usr/share/anaconda/addons, so something like this will work to create
an updates.img:

mkdir -p updates/usr/share/anaconda/addons
cp -r com_redhat_kdump updates/usr/share/anaconda/addons/
( cd updates; find . | cpio -oc | gzip -c9 ) > updates.img

then you can upload the updates.img to some http or ftp server so the anaconda
can get it by boot parameter as updates=http://some.website.com/path/to/updates.img.