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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Bonding Fails in Kickstart %pre Section
I am trying to setup a bonded network from the %pre section of a CentOS 7 kickstart. I can prove the the following bonded network works:
network --device=mynetwork --bondslaves=eth0,eth1 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.0.1 --activate --onboot yes…
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Ubuntu 16.04. Netinstall kickstart fails
i'm trying to install a server via pxe with ubuntu 16.04. server. So what does fine is the PXE Boot
label install (x86_64 - Ubuntu 16.04)
menu label Installer (x86_64 - Ubuntu 16.04)
kernel install/Ubuntu/16.04/linux
append …
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kickstart installation is not starting on redhat linux (AWS)
I want to make a kickstart installation of centos 7 however, the VM starts but route me to a manual textuel installation (which succeeds).
I run this commad to start the installation
virt-install --name centos7 --ram 2500 --disk…
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Execute half of the %post section of a kickstart in a nochroot environment and the other half in a chroot environment
I am trying to execute a script that performs certain security configurations on my recently installed system. Much of the script refers to files starting with / as the base directory which presents a problem as copying the script from my isolinux…
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Have a kickstart file run an independent script file from its %post section
If I wanted to run a shell script that was its own file from my RHEL7 kickstart's %post section, where would I need to put that extra file and what would be the path I would use to run it? For example, if my kickstart.cfg file resides in my isolinux…
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Unable to open input kickstart file curl#37
Getting the below error while installing from ks.cfg
unable to open input kickstart file curl#37 Couldn't open file /tmp/swappart
Here am trying to include /tmp/swappart file from pre section under disks and partition section. Dont know where…
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GRUB installing CentOS 7 on CentOS 6 machine with kickstart
I am wondering if someone can provide some help. I am trying to do an automated install (with kickstart file) with CentOS 7 on a CentOS 6 server.
However I have failed multiple times so far. I did Google on it, but no such luck...
The latest source,…
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Firewall rules not working in post script of kickstart
I am installing centos with kickstart and during installation in post script it suppose to update device over tftp.
in my script i trigger that device which ultimately copy firmware from my system(where my kickstart is running).
These firewall…
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Networking configuration during Kickstart
We have recently run into an issue where ipconfig is no longer able to pick up networking during the post install portion of our anaconda kickstart file.
This is preventing our boxes from installing puppet and they have to be manually tweaked when…
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How can I configure anaconda kickstart to assure its installs all updates from start?
I am using anaconda kickstart installer to provision fedora 28 baremetals but I found that by default i does not install all updates.
I do want to avoid having to run a an yum -q -y update during the %post phase an find a way in which the initial…
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How to make rpm install from user avoid curl SSL errors?
I am trying install a RPM from an url directly from anaconda kickstart (CentOS7) %post phase but I encountered an interesting error:
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+ rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
curl: (60) Peer's certificate…
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CentOS 7 kickstart arguments
How to pass arguments to a kickstart installation procedure on CentOS 7?
I need to install multiple servers that have similar configuration except some differences that I would like to pass to kickstart before installation.
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centos kickstart still has 60 second wait for automatic boot
Is there any kickstart or boot option I can use to tell CentOS7 to automatically boot.
Currently I'm still getting below 60 second wait before the kickstart install to proceed.
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How to add a DUD driver to CentOS/RHEL 7 media (without network)?
I'm working on making an offline installer for something I currently build using PXE and RHEL 7. The servers concerned (Dell 14G) need an addition driver loaded for the RAID controller. In the PXE version, I can add dd=http://somehost/blah.iso to…
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Linux PXE build unable to download kickstart file over http
I am working on setting up a PXE based build system in our environment.
Short description on how it will work is, server will boot into network, get an IP address and PXE server details from DHCP server and then we select the rebuild option in the…
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