On 07/22/2011 02:11 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > The kickstart is intended to create images which can also run on > real iron, including those with "real" storage ( brocade, qlogic etc ). > Therefore the firmware is left there on purpose. Ah I see, understood. > As of ks file size: who cares ? You create it once and use it as > many times as needed. An extra dozen or hundreds of bytes / couple of > lines are not significant in this context That wasn't my point :-) I guess I could have said "simpler" rather than "smaller" to make my point clearer. The less stuff that has to be manually specified in the file, the less work needed from a maintenance point of view. Also, it's simpler from a conceptual standpoint to see what's happening. -Kartik