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The Red Hat Kickstart installation method

Kickstart refers to an automated installation method to install Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

See Anaconda/Kickstart.

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Amiga 1200 Kickstart ROM upgrade, white screen

My towerised Amiga 1200 came out of storage recently and I've been messing around with it a bit. I decided to give it an OS upgrade so I purchased Kickstart 3.1 ROMs and Workbench 3.1 disks. I swapped out the Kickstart ROMs (while using an…
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Is it possible to skip a package weak dependencies during a kickstart installation of Fedora?

I know how to skip the installation of weak dependencies with dnf when installing a package (either by modifying dnf.conf or directly in the command line). I was wondering: is it possible to skip a package weak dependencies during a kickstart…
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How can you create a USB installation drive w/ partition for kickstart files in CentOS 7?

How would you create a CentOS 7 USB installer with a data partition to store kickstart files? We will be getting some new servers shortly and overall I’m expecting to do over 30 servers installs. What I’d really like to do is have a usb stick that I…
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How to add extra packages to Ubuntu install CD using kickstart

I used kickstart to automate Ubuntu12.04 alternate iso installation. I am able to automate the installation. Now I want to install some extra packages such as teamviewer during OS installation. But the problem is that it cannot be installed online.…
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RedHat Kickstart

I'm looking into creating a kickstart script to get a default build of a system. However this system requires some in-house software which are currently on DVDs. As this is my first kickstart installation of redhat, I haven't a clue where to…
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Using %ksappend from main kickstart file from usb device, what is the correct path?

I'm using kickstart for the installation of a Fedora system. I separated some steps of the installation in some kickstart files, so they can be easily reused. For example, the section about partitioning is in one file, the packages to be installed…
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CentOS - using PXE to install it on my host ( kickstart configuration )

I am trying to install an OS from our server through PXE ( Preboot Execution Environment ). However, on my host, I have two disks say A ( /dev/sda ) and B ( /dev/sdb ) The default installation path goes to disk A while I expect to install it on disk…
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Creating a CentOS 7 ISO with kickstart not working out as expected

I wish to create an ISO file containing CentOS 7 x64 for unattended/kickstart installations. For CentOS 6, it worked like a charm. But for CentOS 7, I am unable to create a bootable ISO image. This is what I did: Mounted the original .ISO: mkdir…
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virt-install Centos 6.6 - No option 'boot.iso' in section 'images-x6_64'

I'm having trouble using kickstart to set up a VM in kickstart for the first time. I've copied the files off a mounted Centos 6.6 minimal iso to a local ftp server: ftp: //198.162.1.161/pub/inst/ My kickstart configuration file has been copied into…
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Anaconda kickstart Variables

I am have an issue where I am trying to store a user's input in the variable called $mail, in the %pre environment of anaconda, and then pass it into the %post script, where it will append to the file /foo/bar. I've tried it as such: %pre exec <…
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Is it possible to run a dialog/whiptail script in one TTY from another?

The origin of this question, for me, is being able to run a whiptail command in a %pre script from a kickstart file when installing a custom distribution based on Centos. However, the behaviour observed in Anaconda can easily be reproduced via the…
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Unattended Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop installation Using Kickstart

I was trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop Using Kickstart from the tutorial here. Here is ks.cfg file #Generated by Kickstart Configurator #platform=x86 #System language lang en_US #Language modules to install langsupport en_IN ml_IN…
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DVD not found error while kickstart installation on RHEL 6.5/6.4

I want ks.cfg on dvd itself to keep everything at same place. Content of isolinux/isolinux.cfg label ks menu label ^Kickstart kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg And ks.cfg is on top / of cdrom. but when actual…
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How can I use kickstart or something else at the command line to view ARD settings?

I know I can use kickstart to configure Apple Remote Desktop from the command line, but, I can't find anything on the Internet or in kickstart's help message indicating how I can view the current settings from the command line. Does anyone know…
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Ubuntu server 12.04 auto installation freezes at kickseeding running if ks.cfg has post scripts

I'm trying to make a custom Ubuntu Server iso file. Kickstart file (ks.cfg) runs smooth when there is no %post in the file and Ubuntu installs correctly with ks configuration. Installation finishes installing base, apt, grub and It echos: Kickseed…
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