kickstart

Examples

RHEL6 Headless

The following file is for a RHEL6 KVM virtual server running headless, with only a serial console in order to be able to log in from the KVM host using virsh console burst07. See virt-install for and installation example using this kickstart file. RHN packages are skipped, some other useful packages are added.

# Kickstart file for RHEL6

install
text
reboot
url --url=http://192.168.19.254/install/os/rhel-server-6.0-x86_64
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard fr
network --hostname burst07.marmotte.ici --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.19.7 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.19.254 --nameserver 192.168.19.1
rootpw changemeIMMEDIATELY
firewall --service=ssh --port=http:tcp
services --disabled anacron,auditd
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 --enablefingerprint
selinux --enforcing
timezone --utc Europe/Paris

bootloader --location=mbr --append="console=ttyS0,9600 crashkernel=auto"
clearpart --all --initlabel
part / --asprimary --fstype=ext4 --size=100 --grow
part swap --asprimary --recommended

repo --name="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6" --baseurl=http://192.168.19.254/install/os/rhel-server-6.0-x86_64/ --cost=100

%packages --nobase
@core
-rhn-check
-rhn-client-tools
-rhn-setup
-rhnlib
-rhnsd
-yum-rhn-plugin
bind-utils
elinks
iptraf
lsof
man
mtr
nmap
openssh-clients
prelink
rsync
screen
strace
sysstat
tcpdump
telnet
vim-enhanced
wget
yum-utils
%end

%post --log=/root/ks-post.log
wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/custom.repo http://192.168.19.254/install/custom-el6.repo
# Disable all tty consoles, since we run headless (the serial one is active)
sed -i -e 's|RUNLEVEL=\[2345\]|RUNLEVEL=[45]|' /etc/init/start-ttys.conf
# Install my GPG key for package signatures
wget -O /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-matthias http://192.168.19.254/install/RPM-GPG-KEY-matthias
%end