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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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kickstart ESXi vim-cmd hostsvc/enable_ssh : 503 service unavailable

In my vmware ESXi kickstart file, the following command vim-cmd hostsvc/enable_ssh failed with the error message - 503 service unavailable. After Vmware ESXi kickstart installation, if I type the command from shell, I get the same error message…
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Kickstart Installation from USB

My goal is to install Oracle Linux 6.3 from USB. My problem is when I copy DVD media to USB. The symlink file repodata is unable to create because the file system is FAT/FAT32. Below is the symlink detail. -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 196 Jun 26 2012…
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Redhat 6 gui installation VS kickstart gives me different packages?

If i do the graphical install and select basic server + aide and screen i get a system with 535 installed packages. If i look at the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg file in that freshly installed system i…
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How can I register a RHEL6 server via kickstart without using up a "Management" entitlement?

It seems that the only way I could get RHEL 6 to register is adding the following to the kickstart's %post stanza: rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT --activationkey=
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how to do a kickstart installation of CentOS 6.0 on a Areca 1880i hardware RAID card

I have a server with this hardware two Intel Xeon E5620 CPUs Areca 1880i 8-port SAS RAID PCIe 512MB cache Areca Battery Backup Module 5 pcs Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723030ALA640 64MB 3TB and have created one RAID 6 volume that makes use of all…
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How to start with/setup AMAZON EC2 ubuntu instance from a Win Terminal?

I am not able to find a startup easy guide to start with Amzaon EC2, though went through various AWS Docs but every doc is linked to one another, is there any Doc that is complete in itself and not require a too techie person for the JOB done? I am…
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xenserver: installation via kickstart file after adding storage

export MGUID=`xe vm-install template=centos6 new-name-label="centos 6 test install 3"` xe vm-disk-add disk-size=11GiB vm=$MGUID sr-uuid=$STORAGE_UID device=0 xe vm-param-set uuid="$MGUID" PV-args="ks=http://server.com/ks.cfg ksdevice=eth0" xe…
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CentOS - lm_sensors installation

I need to install CentOS 5 server using kickstart installation. As part of the installation, I need to install lm_sensors package. When I'm installing lm_sensors manually, I'm running sensors-detect command. But this command is requires an…
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adding kickstart to a cd in windows

I'd like to add a kickstart file to a fedora DVD for an automated install. I don't ahve access to a Linux box though, just windows. How can I remaster the iso to add the kickstart file?
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kickstart from USB stick with RPMs not in ISO (CentOS5.x)

We have been looking to setup a USB disk (stick) for uniformly configuring our servers. (and when I say "we" I mean my colleague figured it out with my occasional help) We would like to explicitly list the RPMs we want. So far: We managed to make…
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RHEL kickstart with external DVDrom drive

HI I've an old Dell poweredge server with an CDROM drive. I've attached a USB DVDROM and USB stick with my ks.cfg on so I can install RHEL from DVD not loads of CDs :-) I can boot from the RHEL media in DVDROM and point the installer to the USB…
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BAD ARCHIVE MIRROR using PXE BOOT method

i m trying to automatically install UBUNTU on a client PC by using the method of PXE BOOT method....my Objectives are below:- i m following the steps given in this link installation using PXE BOOT INSTALL 1:-the server will have a KICKSTART config…
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Problem with kickstart

I created a kickstart file ks.cfg and then I have put that in the bootable disk**(Ubuntu 10.04)** and then added the following line to the isolinux.cfg linux ks=ks.cfg and have not removed any other lines from the isoconfig.cfg file and then while…
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NIC reordering on RHEL5/CentOS 5

I have an HP ProLiant DL360 G6 containing two onboard NICs as well as an HP NC375T (NetXen NX3031 chipset) 4-port PCIe card. The system was running with eth0 and eth1 belonging to the onboard NICs and eth2-eth5 on the NetXen card. I recently rebuilt…
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Downloading and running a custom set of scripts in the cobbler kickstart file for Fedora

I need to use rysnc to get a series of files from a server on the network in the cobbler kickstart file. Can I just add the rsync command line to the file to be run in the %post section of the file or is there something else that I need to be doing?…
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