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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Cobbler kickstart file for Fedora adding packages
Can I assume that if you add packages such as httpd and php these will be installed via "yum install" as long as I specify them after the %packages in the kickstart file?
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Optional 'network' statements in kickstart file?
I have a kickstart file which I want to use for machines with different numbers of network interfaces. When I have a KS file with multiple network clauses for multiple interfaces, anaconda refuses to run it on a machine with fewer network…
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PXE booting via a trunk port?
is is possible to pxe boot (a la as the first step in a cobbler install) when a system is hooked into a spanned switch port?
I guess my question is can the pxe process somehow be made aware of vlan tags coming in and use one of them?
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Fedora distribution update pop-up after fresh installation
We are doing a kickstart installation of Fedora 10 at our place. I am quite intimidated by the distribution update pop up that comes up after the O/S installation. I want a keyword to put into the kickstart file that would stop Fedora from…
Sayan Ghosh
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LUKS encrypted, fails to open with /etc/crypttab
#platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T
#version=DEVEL
text
url --url=http://caching-proxy/repos/rhel8/8.5/rhn/base/unstable
repo --name=cache-rhn-base --baseurl=http://caching-proxy/repos/rhel8/8.5/rhn/base/unstable --install
repo…
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Issues with Kickstart on Fedora 38
I'm having an issue where I receive the following errors when attempting an install with Anaconda Kickstart. The input below is the default when I enter the ‘inst.ks’ option
Input:
setparams 'Install Fedora 38'
linuxefi /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz…
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Kickstart %ksappend Filepath
I'm trying to modularize my kickstart file; in particular, I'd like the %pre section to live in a separate file brought in using the %ksappend statement. However, this consistently fails with the installer saying '/run/install/ks.cfg is missing';…
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Questions about PV. syntax in ks.cfg
Here just for example:
part pv.01 -size=100 -grow -ondisk=/dev/sda
part pv.02 -size=300 -grow -ondisk=/dev/sdb
Is the purpose of the PV. usage merely used to customize the initial size of some disk?
How to specify the value of some PV…
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Kickstart for CentOS9
Is there a kickstart feature in CentOS9?
When I try to install system-config-kickstart I am getting the following message
No match for argument: system-config-kickstart
Error: Unable to find a match: system-config-kickstart
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Kickstart Partitions
Hi I wrote the kickstart file for centos 7. It works great but in some machines because of partitioning 2 disk drives which should be determined like sda and sdb I have issues USB boot drive is overridden and interrupt the…
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Force to create admin user, if root was locked
I've created a kickstart file for automated installation of CentOS 7. Idea is to make foolproof oem installation, so root is locked, user have to be created on final part of installation. But here is a problem - user can be created without sudo…
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Centos Stream 9 boot iso stuck during kickstart
I am trying to install a Centos Stream 9 boot iso on my mac M1 via VMware Fusion. I already solved a lot of issues that were preventing me to start installation. Now I get to the installation (I am using packer and a kickstart file) but it gets…
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Kickstart Fedora server iso using usb
Hi I need to create a Fedora Server image with my application in it using kickstart installation.
I have executed following steps :
Downloaded the fedora35 Image from https://getfedora.org/en/server/download/ …
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Centos Kickstart - partitioning fails because of arbitrary disk order
I've prepared a kickstart file for a Red Hat Virtualization 4.4 VM with 3 virtio-scsi disks with different disk sizes:
# System bootloader configuration
bootloader --append=" crashkernel=auto" --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda
# Partition clearing…
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How to force creating an extended partition in before the last primary partition in kickstart?
I am searching for a way to write a kickstart partition section where I can control precisely which partitions are primary, and which partitions are secondary partitions in a extended partition.
I don't want to use LVM, and I want to create this…
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