Kickstart Options - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 System Administration Manual

Chapter 1. Kickstart Installations
• Items that are not required can be omitted.
• Omitting any required item results in the installation program prompting the user for an answer to
the related item, just as the user would be prompted during a typical installation. Once the answer is
given, the installation continues unattended (unless it finds another missing item).
• Lines starting with a pound (or hash) sign (#) are treated as comments and are ignored.
• For kickstart upgrades, the following items are required:
• Language
• Language support
• Installation method
• Device specification (if device is needed to perform the installation)
• Keyboard setup
• The upgrade keyword
• Boot loader configuration
If any other items are specified for an upgrade, those items are ignored (note that this includes
package selection).

1.4. Kickstart Options

The following options can be placed in a kickstart file. If you prefer to use a graphical interface for
creating your kickstart file, use the Kickstart Configurator application. Refer to
Configurator
for details.
Note
If the option is followed by an equals mark (=), a value must be specified after it. In the
example commands, options in brackets ([]) are optional arguments for the command.
autopart (optional)
Automatically create partitions — 1 GB or more root (/) partition, a swap partition, and an
appropriate boot partition for the architecture. One or more of the default partition sizes can be
redefined with the part directive.
ignoredisk (optional)
Causes the installer to ignore the specified disks. This is useful if you use autopartition and want to
be sure that some disks are ignored. For example, without ignoredisk, attempting to deploy on
a SAN-cluster the kickstart would fail, as the installer detects passive paths to the SAN that return
no partition table.
The ignoredisk option is also useful if you have multiple paths to your disks.
The syntax is:
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Chapter 2, Kickstart