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Kickstart is the method of automated installation of Linux Systems based on Red Hat or their clones (CentOS, Scientific Linux, Unbreakable Linux, ...)

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how to install kickstart in client system

i am trying to install centos 5.3 with kickstart but it displaying "unable to download kickstart file. please modify the kickstart parameter" what is the environment required in server to install kickstart in client through NFS
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RHEL 5.3 Kickstart - How specify location of individual package in Workstation folder?

I keep getting "package does not exist" errors during the install. I made a kickstart ISO to create an unattended install of a RHEL 5.3 build machine for C++ software releases. It pulls the kickstart config file from our internal web server. This…
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install rhel9 system using kickstart over http fails

I am trying to install a rhel9 system (vm) with a kickstart file. The kickstart file was created using the anaconda-ks.cfg from a manual install of a previous rhel9 system (changed the ks file with new ip addres, hostname and the disk size). The…
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Spacewalk kickstart installation does not automatically begin until the enter key is pressed

I am trying to automate the linux installation process using Spacewalk 2.10. Everything else seems to be working, except I have to select the boot option by manually pressing the enter key. Otherwise, Automatic boot time is reset and the…
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How to prepare custom Alpine Linux ISO for unattended installation

I am evaluating Alpine Linux to replace CentOS, Currently we prepare Custom ISO with kickstart for unattended installations. In my case from unattended I mean that deployer just put USB and after that installer finish without asking any input. For…
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Can you use a proxy server to retrieve a kickstart file?

I would like to access a kickstart file through a proxy. The kickstart file is hosted on the public internet but the server doing the install can only access the internet through a proxy. The following works when the kickstart file is available…
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How to redirect the kickstart output to the serial console?

I am trying to automate a server build using HP's ILO virtual serial interface to avoid the advanced license. When the kickstart file is running, none of the output is sent to the serial console. Including the following in the kickstart file will…
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Can't install RedHat 8.4 offline from DVD

I'm trying to install RedHat 8.4 on a workstation in an isolated network. Is there a way to do it without connecting to the web or a server on the same network ? The GUI does not seem to provide the option to install from the DVD anymore in this…
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OEL8 kickstart install on ESXi - hangs at "Reached target Basic System" - why?

I am trying to install OEL8 on ESXi 7 with a kickstart file. I have the ks.cfg hosted on an http server on the local subnet. The ks.cfg settings are taken from a manually installed OEL VM's anaconda-ks.cfg file. I have the OEL8 ISO mounted to the VM…
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KVM/QEMU CentOS 8 kickstarted VMs have broken networking, are unreachable

I can't understand why the VMs I create using virt-install & kickstart do not have networking that can be accessed reliably from foreign hosts. The VMs I created using virt-manager can be logged into using ssh, are pingable etc. but the kickstarted…
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IPXE boot on amd based architecture with NVME

We have a quite big infrastructure and now we started to use AMD based servers instead of the intel ones with 1 nvme only for os. We are using ipxe to kickstart the servers but for some reason with this new amd nvme setup the ipxe fails during the…
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How do I execute a command before kickstart parses ks.cfg?

How do I execute a command before kickstart parses ks.cfg? My specific problem is that I want to install redhat into a tmpfs by telling kickstart: part / --fstype ext3 --size 1000 --maxsize 4000 --ondisk loop1 I've tried doing: %pre #!/bin/sh mkdir…
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pass an anaconda boot option to a kickstart file in rhel7 initial install

Is there a way to pass an anaconda boot option to a kickstart file, where it could be used as a variable. Say anaconda boot cmd is xxxx ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=xxx.xxx.xxx.1 ksdevice=b ks= I wanted to know if there was a way…
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Creating a script for Kickstarting servers; issue with created softraid 1 server based on CentOS 7

First off; I am sorry if my title is incorrect, but I didn't want to "clutter" it too much. I am creating a bash script which is used to install various servers based on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 with hardware raid and software RAID 1. So far I am doing…
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