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Important
RHN Satellite Server users should note that channels imported with
available automatically and do not require the creation of a separate installation tree. For instance,
if you have imported
will appear within the Distribution dropdown menu of the Kickstart Details page. You need only
select the correct distribution. These trees are available to client systems that kickstart through the
Satellite. While you may be able to access the files from a non-kickstarting client, this functionality is
not supported and may be removed at any time in the future.
To create a new distribution, enter an intuitive label (without spaces) in the Distribution Label field.
In the External Location field, paste the URL to the base of the installation tree. (You can test this by
appending "README" to the URL in a Web browser, hitting return, and ensuring the distribution's
readme file appears.)
In the Autokickstart Boot Image field, enter the auto-ks kernel image for the distribution. You can
find all of the available packages by searching RPMs for "auto-kickstart". Identify the appropriate
package based upon the distribution to be kickstarted. It should look something like, "auto-kickstart-
ks-rhel-i386-as-3". Then, strip everything preceding the "ks" to derive the boot image. For instance, in
the above example, you would put "ks-rhel-i386-as-3" in the Autokickstart Boot Image field. Then
select the matching distribution from the Base Channel and Installer Generation dropdown menus
and click the Create button.
4.4.10.9. File Preservation
The File Preservation page collects lists of files to be protected and re-deployed on systems during
kickstart. For instance, if you have many custom configuration files located on a system to be kick-
started, you can enter them here quickly as a list and then associate that list with the kickstart profile
to be used.
To use this feature, click the create new file preservation list link at the top and enter a relevant label
and all files and directories to preserved on the resulting page. Make sure you enter absolute paths to
all files and directories. Then click Create List.
Important
Although file preservation is useful, it does have limitations. First, each list is limited to a total size of
1 MB. Further, special devices like
file and directory names may be entered. No regular-expression wildcards can be included.
When finished, you may include the file preservation list in the kickstart profile to be used on systems
containing those files. Refer to Section 4.4.10.3 Creating Kickstarts for precise steps.
4.4.10.10. Building Bootable Kickstart ISOs
Copy the contents of
file to default to 'ks'. Change the 'ks' section to look like this:
isolinux.cfg
label ks
kernel vmlinuz
append text ks={url} initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=16438 \
{ksdevice}
The URL can be obtained from the Kickstart Details page. It will look something like this:
and the current release is
rhel-i386-es-3
/dev/hda1
from the first CD-ROM of the target distribution. Then edit the
/isolinux
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rhel-i386-es-3-u1
and are not supported. Finally, only actual
/dev/sda1
are made
satellite-sync
, this option