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Automated installations via kickstart: msg#00085
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Automated installations via kickstart |
Whoohoo! Finally got xen/kickstart to do a complete hands-off installation. The
goal is to be able to provision an OS for a customer (internal/external) with as
little interaction as possible, giving me more time to drink my coffee :D. The
kickstart piece makes it as easy/easier than AIX NIM installations...
I used the anaconda_ks.cfg from a previously installed domU and made a few
changes.
To use it with xenguest-install.py you need to specify the kickstart file with
the
"-x" option:
xenguest-install.py -n xm-fc4-004 \
-f /dev/rootvg/xm-fc4-004_lv \
-r 256 -l ftp://192.168.8.21/pub \
-x ks=ftp://192.168.8.21/xm-fc4-004_ks.cfg
The kickstart file follows.
Some notes:
If you start with an anaconda generated file you need to add the keyboard
directive.
For some reason it does not save this information (bug??). The zerombr
directive
will also destroy the existing LVM volume so use with care. The rootpw directive
needs to be changed in the example. You'd probably want to change the bootproto
option also. I'm hand-editing the IP info because I already have DNS entries.
# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.
install
url --url ftp://192.168.8.21//pub
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.8.64 --netmask
255.255.255.0
--gateway 192.168.8.1 --nameserver 192.168.8
rootpw --iscrypted $1$ma1gooDL$myPaSsw0rdhashwh000h000
firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
selinux --disabled
timezone America/New_York
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda
reboot
zerombr yes
clearpart --all
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100
part swap --size=256
part pv.00 --size=1 --grow --asprimary
volgroup rootvg pv.00
logvol / --name root_lv --vgname=rootvg --size=400
logvol swap --name swap_lv --vgname=rootvg --size=256
logvol /usr --name usr_lv --vgname=rootvg --size=2000
logvol /tmp --name tmp_lv --vgname=rootvg --size=200
logvol /var --name var_lv --vgname=rootvg --size=200
logvol /home --name home_lv --vgname=rootvg --size=400
%packages
@admin-tools
@base
@core
@dns-server
@editors
@text-internet
@web-server
comps-extras
cracklib-dicts
gnome-mime-data
rmt
tzdata
%post
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