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Chapter 6. Red Hat Network Website
Figure 6.8. Kickstart Profiles
This page lists all profiles for your organization, whether those profiles are active, and the boot
image to which that profile points. You can either create a new kickstart profile by clicking the
create new kickstart profile link in the upper right or edit existing profiles by clicking in the
name of the profile.
4.9.3. Create a New Kickstart Profile
If you are not using RHN Satellite Server, and wish to develop a new kickstart profile, first create
a distribution through the Systems # Kickstart # Distributions page. Refer to
"Kickstart # Distributions —
Overview page to create the Kickstart Profile.
Click on the Create a New Kickstart Profile link from the Systems # Kickstart page to start
the brief wizard that populates the base values needed for a kickstart profile.
1. On the first page, enter a kickstart profile label and select a kickstartable tree for this profile.
The kickstartable tree drop-down menu is only populated if one or more distributions have
been created for the selected base channel.
2. On the second page, select (or enter) the URL of the kickstart tree.
3. On the third page, select a root password for the system. Be sure to follow the password
recommendations from the Password Security section of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Section 4.9.6,