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II. Installation-Related Information................................................................................................ 37
9. Kickstart Installations ......................................................................................................... 39
9.1. What are Kickstart Installations? ......................................................................... 39
9.2. How Do You Perform a Kickstart Installation? ................................................... 39
9.3. Creating the Kickstart File ................................................................................... 39
9.4. Kickstart Options ................................................................................................. 40
9.5. Package Selection ................................................................................................ 55
9.6. Pre-installation Script........................................................................................... 56
9.7. Post-installation Script ......................................................................................... 57
9.8. Making the Kickstart File Available .................................................................... 58
9.9. Making the Installation Tree Available ................................................................ 59
9.10. Starting a Kickstart Installation ......................................................................... 60
10. Kickstart Configurator ................................................................................................... 63
10.1. Basic Configuration ........................................................................................... 63
10.2. Installation Method ............................................................................................ 64
10.3. Boot Loader Options.......................................................................................... 65
10.4. Partition Information.......................................................................................... 66
10.5. Network Configuration ...................................................................................... 69
10.6. Authentication .................................................................................................... 70
10.7. Firewall Configuration ....................................................................................... 71
10.8. X Configuration ................................................................................................. 72
10.9. Package Selection .............................................................................................. 75
10.10. Pre-Installation Script ...................................................................................... 75
10.11. Post-Installation Script..................................................................................... 76
10.12. Saving the File ................................................................................................. 78
11. Basic System Recovery..................................................................................................... 79
11.1. Common Problems ............................................................................................ 79
11.2. Booting into Rescue Mode................................................................................. 79
11.3. Booting into Single-User Mode ......................................................................... 81
11.4. Booting into Emergency Mode .......................................................................... 82
12. Software RAID Configuration .......................................................................................... 83
13. LVM Configuration ........................................................................................................... 87
14. PXE Network Installations ............................................................................................... 91
14.1. Setting up the Network Server ........................................................................... 91
14.2. PXE Boot Configuration .................................................................................... 91
14.3. Adding PXE Hosts ............................................................................................. 93
14.4. Starting the
14.5. Configuring the DHCP Server ........................................................................... 94
14.6. Adding a Custom Boot Message........................................................................ 95
14.7. Performing the PXE Installation ........................................................................ 95
15. Diskless Environments...................................................................................................... 97
15.1. Start the
15.2. Configuring the DHCP Server ........................................................................... 97
15.3. Configuring the NFS Server............................................................................... 98
15.4. Finish Configuring the Diskless Environment ................................................... 98
15.5. Adding Hosts ..................................................................................................... 99
15.6. Booting the Hosts............................................................................................... 99
Server .................................................................................... 94
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Server ......................................................................................... 97
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