2.3. Kickstart Profiles

Procedure 2.3. Creating a Kickstart Profile with a Wizard

1. Select Systems Kickstart Create a New Kickstart Profile
2. Provide an appropriate Label, and select the desired Base Channel and Kickstartable Tree
3. Select the desired Virtualization Type. See Virtualization Types for more information about virtualization types. Click next to continue.
4. Select the download location for the kickstart profile. For custom distributions, enter the location of its tree as a URL (both HTTP and FTP are supported), otherwise, use the default option. Click next to continue.
5. Enter the root password and click finish to complete the profile creation.
6. The complete kickstart profile will be created. View the profile by clicking Kickstart File.

Procedure 2.4. Creating a Kickstart Profile with the Raw Method

1. Select Systems Kickstart Upload a New Kickstart File
2. Provide an appropriate label, and select the desired distribution
3. Select the desired Virtualization Type. See Virtualization Types for more information about virtualization types.
4. If there is an existing kickstart profile, upload the file. Otherwise, write the kickstart profile in the File Contents text box.
   Here is a sample raw kickstart that can be used as a starting point:

   install
   text
   network --bootproto dhcp
   url --url http://$http_server/ks/dist/org/1/ks-rhel-i386-server-5
   lang en_US
   keyboard us
   zerombr
   clearpart --all
   part / --fstype=ext3 --size=200 --grow
   part /boot --fstype=ext3 --size=200
   part swap --size=1000   --maxsize=2000
   bootloader --location mbr
   timezone America/New_York
   auth --enablemd5 --enableshadow
   rootpw --iscrypted $1$X/CrCfCE$x0veQO88TCm2VprcMkH.d0
   selinux --permissive
   reboot
   firewall --disabled
   skipx
   key --skip
   
   %packages 
   @ Base
   
   %post
   $SNIPPET('redhat_register')
   

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5. The RHN Satellite server does not handle the specified distribution as the url in the kickstart, so remember to include the url --url option in the profile, similar to the following:

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

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   Replace my_distro with the distribution label and 1 with your org id.
6. Raw kickstart profiles use $http_server instead of the Satellite's host name. This will be filled in automatically when the kickstart template is rendered.
7. The redhat_register snippet is used to handle registration.