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Chapter 5. Provisioning with Satellite

5.6.2.1. Wizard Style Kickstarts

To create a wizard style Kickstart:

1. Click on Systems => Kickstart => create a new kickstart profile

2. Provide an appropriate label, select the desired base channel and distribution

3. Select the Virtualization Type desired

4. Select next

5. You will be presented with an option to use the default download location or use a custom one.

Select the default unless you're using a custom distribution. (If you are using a custom distribution,

enter the location of its tree via a URI (http and ftp are supported)

6. Click next

7. Enter the root password

8. Click finish

At this point, Satellite generates a fully functional Kickstart file, which you can view by clicking

Kickstart File.

5.6.2.2. Raw Style Kickstarts

To create a completely customizable Kickstart:

1. Click on Systems => Kickstart => upload new kickstart file

2. Provide an appropriate label

3. Select the desired Distribution

4. Select the appropriate virtualization type (see above)

5. If you have an existing kickstart file you can upload it using the file upload feature, otherwise

simply copy and paste it into the File Contents box

Since the raw kickstart is completely written by the user, the Satellite server does not handle using the

specified distro as the url in the kickstart. Because of this, you will want to include your own url --

url option. It should look similar to the following:

url --url http://satellite.example.com/ks/dist/org/1/my_distro

Replace my_distro with the distro label and 1 with your org id.

Here is a sample raw kickstart that you may want to use as a starting point:

install

text

network --bootproto dhcp

url --url http://$http_server/ks/dist/org/1/ks-rhel-i386-server-5

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