[clue] Last night's kickstart presentation
David L. Willson
DLWillson at TheGeek.NU
Wed Apr 11 13:08:56 MDT 2012
It was a pretty awesome show-and-tell, if I do say so myself. The plan basically worked, with just enough breakage to make it interesting.
Summary:
kickstart files are plain-text answer files that can be used to automate the installation of any of the following distributions, maybe more:
Fedora, Red Hat, Oracle, CentOS, Scientific
A basic kickstart file representing the current build is dropped in /root/anaconda-ks.cfg after the install of any of the above.
system-config-kickstart is a great graphical utility for editing kickstart files, but doesn't support ~every~ possible option.
to specify a kickstart file, at the 'boot:' prompt from the install disc, type "linux (path-to-kickstart", for example:
linux ks=http://server1/ks.cfg
The kickstart file can not only automate setup, it can be used to add pieces to setup, like scripts to be run before or after OS install.
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David L. Willson
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----- Original Message -----
> David,
>
> Thanks for an excellent presentation. Too bad so few could be
> bothered
> to turn out.
>
> Answer to one of the questions. For servers, in order to allow for
> standard gui setup without enabling the gui environment automatically
> (stay in runlevel 3), include this parameteers in the xxx-ks.cfg
>
> skipx
>
> --
> Collins Richey
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> of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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