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The kickstart file is a file that is read during the installation of RHEL/CentOS software that automates the installation process.

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How do you configure your network interface to be eth0 in your kickstart file when using PXE boot to install your bootable ISO? This is on a RHEL linux machine. I have a bootable ISO which I have ...
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I'm trying to create stack of multiple vms on KVM_HOST with terraform. The catch is, I'm using pxeboot & kickstart to do installation. Kickstart file needs to carry some dynamic information, like ...
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I have a kvm host, with bridge network, so the vms get IP info directly from router itself. I have created a pxeboot env with dnsmasq acting as dhcp proxy, and kickstart as method of installation ...
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first, I installed apache & started its service yum install httpd && systemctl enabled httpd --now then I mounted dvd iso & copied its content to apache dir mount -o ro ~/Downloads/...
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I have a custom RHEL7 installation ISO, which was created by copying the files out of a downloaded RHEL7 ISO and adding a number of custom kickstart and other files. The goal being to create a single ...
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I'm trying to install fedora with SED: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SelfEncryptingDrivesSupportInAnaconda The GUI doesn't support it, I have to install using a kickstart file. I checked ...
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Question: I followed the Red Hat documentation to create a Kickstart (ks) file located in the root directory of the installation image. The documentation I referred to is: Red Hat Installation Guide. ...
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Is it possible to setup RAID-1 on a system with only 1 disk and later add the second one? I read the instructions from Red Hat and there is an option to add --spare= I tried this with the code below ...
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We have two identical production servers that are both running RHEL 7.6, with custom applications, on two isolated networks. We are wanting to add eight more of these servers to eight more isolated ...
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I am new to using ks.cfg files and came across one with 2 %post sections and thought it may be a mistake. The first %post section is empty and is just %post --nochroot %end The second %post does have ...
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I'm creating kickstart files for various unattended Redhat installs, but for sake of focus, let's say CentOS 7. I'm using the minimal boot iso, and as part of the boot options, I have inst.ks=https://...
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I have a script at /etc/shadow-maint/useradd-post.d/ that takes a created username, gets their UID, adds one and prints :##=username to the end of /etc/tigervnc/vncserver.users, as well as writes a ...
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I am looking for a way to display messages to the user within the graphical installer during a kickstart post script. Nearly all the documentation/questions I have found have successfully explained ...
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I have a situation where the target host is RHEL 5.x and I have to kickstart it to fresh RHEL7.9. no other option, but only ks. and KS is not working. :-( target host: (this range is allowed to ping,...
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I am trying to change some of the firewall settings during an automatic kickstart installation in the %post section on a RHEL 8 server. For example: firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --set-...
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