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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 turn off SSL certificate verification for RedHat Kickstartfile downloading

I'm using Foreman for RedHat 6.0 booting over ipxe (but that shouldn't matter ;) The kernel parameters used for booting are: kernel http://192.168.1.5/dist/rhel/6.0/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz ks=https://puppet.at.internal/unattended/provision…
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How can I troubleshoot a failing Linux kickstart installation?

I am having some trouble getting my pxebooting kickstart process working. The script is known to work when installed via a DVD with the local media on the disk. I have updated the script to work with a remote repository and am leveraging PXEBooting…
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How to create a RHEL/CentOS boot media that automatically loads kickstart from the network?

I've build a local network where using DHCP, kickstart templating and local mirrors I can automate the installation of any RedHat-type operating system. It still requires me to go to the machine (or open a console if its a virtual machine), boot it…
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Kickstart CentOS 7 with software RAID 1, but no LVM needed

I am going to Kickstart a CentOS 7.x installation with software RAID 1 remotely for the first time. So I am kinda inexperienced at this and wondering what I need to make this work correctly. A CentOS 7.x kickstart with hardware raid, I use the…
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Can I unsilence kickstart step Performing post-installation setup tasks?

While anaconda kickstart installer runs the "Performing post-installation setup tasks" tasks are not visible on console and their outcome is only saved to ks-post.log file. I do want to also display it on the console as these steps could take a long…
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CentOS 7 kickstart hangs

I'm trying to install CentOS 7 using kickstart. I created a bootable USB key containing a modified ISO. I'm not able to launch a regular installation with the inst.ks parameter. I precise that the installation launches without this parameter. The…
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Kickstart: Can you determine %package selections in %pre

I've been looking around, and haven't yet seen an example of anyone using logic to determine packages/package group selections for options beneath %packages. I'm trying to have kickstart install packages based on criteria discovered in %pre, for…
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Have Kickstart automatically generate a root password on install

I am currently working on multiple Kickstart configs for my company to allow for easy VM deployment. I cannot find any documentation showing how to have Kickstart generate a root password. Is it possible? If not, can I pipe in output from python or…
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CentOS 7 kickstart - Skip media check during unattended installation?

Is there any way to skip the media check screen during unattended text-mode installations of CentOS 7? I usually install using the minimal ISO, and I've noticed that I need to press ESC once or twice to get out of the ISO's media check. I don't have…
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How do I combine firewall --enabled and --nobase in a CentOS kickstart?

As part of system hardening, I'm trying to configure my firewall during a CentOS 6.6 kickstart with the following line. It does work under one circumstance, and otherwise it doesn't. Kickstart firewall firewall --enabled --service=ssh…
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CentOS 7 installer: blank screen

I am trying to figure out CentOS 7 unattended network (PXE) installations in my setup, but the installer always ends up running into a black screen without interaction options. This is being tried in a 64-bit VM (VMWare Workstation or Oracle…
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CentOS kickstart raid 1 and LVM issues

While doing an unattended install of CentOS 7 using kickstart. I set two disks to me mirrored. bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda,sdb zerombr clearpart --all --initlabel # Disk partitioning part raid.01 --fstype="raid" --ondisk=sda…
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virt-install fully automated install

I'm looking into ways of installing/deploying a VM completely automated (no user interaction). So far I have tried QEMU and virt-install along with QEMU. The issue with qemu is that injecting kickstart file has to be injected manually. On the…
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Consistent Install Disk Selection in RHEL Kickstart

In my kickstart installation I specify that the operating system should be installed on /dev/sda. We have some Dell machines in our environment with iDRAC. When virtual media is attached in iDRAC, it maps Virtual CD drives and Virtual Floppy drives…
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Passing variables in kickstart

I have a kickstart file that takes a hostname in the %pre section. I cannot seem to figure out how to get it two the first. As you see it sends the server information to another device which then customizes the server based on another database. I…
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