How to setup & configure kickstart

Abhijit Chiring · 11-05-2009, 12:06 AM

HI all,

I want to know about kickstart's installation & configuration procedure.
I tried myself several times, but its not working.I think, i did not know the exact procedure. Plz help me to help you.

Regards
Abhijit Chiring

acid_kewpie · 11-05-2009, 01:40 AM

There is no *EXACT* procedure, you can do lots of things in lots of ways. You've not said anything about what you've ptried to do though, so couldn't possibly say what you've done wrong. There are Plenty of guides around if you actually look. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=kickstart+howto

jstephens84 · 11-05-2009, 08:01 AM

For a kickstart you can use the system-config-kickstart to create a bootdisk. This will pull down the files from FTP share / HTTP share / or NFS share. You can also use another kickstart.cfg file that was built during your installation with anaconda. When I get a chance I will look through my lab notes that I have. I had to do this

rohanrote · 11-06-2009, 10:46 PM

Hello,

I am a technical assisstant in a engineering college. We have a setup of 100 computers. We are running rhel 5.2 on 60 client nodes. I have one proxy server and one file server in use. It is very boring to install linux through a DVD on each machine . So I want to setup a kickstart installation method on the Linux FTP Server through LAN. Please guide me with simple steps of configuring the required technology.

jstephens84 · 11-06-2009, 11:25 PM

1. Install NFS
2. edit your /etc/exports file
3. add /pub/rhelX.Y *(ro) (Replace X. Y with whatever number of distro)
4. save /etc/exports
5. exportfs -a
6. mkdir /pub/rhelX.Y
7. mount dvd of RHEL
8. cp /media/dvd/*.* /pub/rhelX.Y

Now run the system-config-kickstart which should walk you through setting up the kickstart file.

The above instructions could be used for the ftp you just need to point people to it. I just prefer NFS over FTP. Also if you use NFS / FTP / HTTP and can't connect, check your firewall and selinux. You may also need to setup some other things like nfs so that it will use specific ports. if you need help I wrote up a post about it not to long ago. see here. http://www.samuraitux.com/34/iptable...-allowing-nfs/