Updated January 15, 2004
Created January 15, 2004


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You can create a kickstart file from scratch, copy from mine, grab the one that is usually generated for you during installation and has been stored in your /root directory, or you can run one of several utilites to create one.


ksconfig
redhat-config-kickstart


I prefer to store my kickstart file on a file server, that way, when I make edits to my ks.cfg file, I don't have to bother messing with my floppy media or cdrom media (if booting from floppy or cd).

Also for my kickstart installs, I prefer to have the source media (installation CD's) located on a file server, this means no swapping of CD-Rom's during installation. For my network installs I prefer NFS because I can use ISO images directly without having to unpack the installation CD's (currently CD1, CD2, and CD3) into a common directory, with ISO images, NFS, and RHL73 or later, I just point to the directory containing the ISO images and the installer finds them and uses them.

You can find lots of documentation for kickstarts:

Red Hat Linux Customization Guide: https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/

my kickstart page: http://www.cpqlinux.com/kickstart.html
my pxe page: http://www.cpqlinux.com/pxe.html
HP's pxe info page: http://h71025.www7.hp.com/support/reference_library/viewdocument.asp?countrycode=1000&prodid=2032&source=TC030904HT.xml&dt=21&docid=21151
my page for modifying the RH boot disk: http://www.cpqlinux.com/rhdiskmod.html

Other important information can be found here:
http://www.cpqlinux.com/isoinstall.html
/usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Also there is lots of documentation in the anaconda packages found on the installation media, here is a listing from RHL9:

[rhl9]$ find . | grep anaconda
./shrike-i386-disc2.iso.dir/RedHat/RPMS/anaconda-9.0-4.i386.rpm
./shrike-i386-disc2.iso.dir/RedHat/RPMS/anaconda-images-9.0-3.noarch.rpm
./shrike-i386-disc2.iso.dir/RedHat/RPMS/anaconda-runtime-9.0-4.i386.rpm
./shrike-i386-disc2.iso.dir/RedHat/RPMS/anaconda-help-9.0-2.noarch.rpm
./shrike-i386-disc2.iso.dir/RedHat/RPMS/busybox-anaconda-0.60.5-6.i386.rpm
./shrike-i386-disc4.iso.dir/SRPMS/anaconda-help-9.0-2.src.rpm
./shrike-i386-disc4.iso.dir/SRPMS/anaconda-images-9.0-3.src.rpm
./shrike-i386-disc4.iso.dir/SRPMS/anaconda-9.0-4.src.rpm

Note, that you can view the contents of an RPM file without having to actually install the RPM package:

cd /var/ftp/pub/rhl9
mkdir /tmp/anaconda
for X in `find . | grep anaconda`; do rpm2cpio $X | (cd /tmp/anaconda && cpio -idvm); done
cd /tmp/anaconda


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