Chapter 13. Semi-automated installations: Making Kickstart files available to the RHEL installer

Procedure

1. List volume information and note the UUID of the volume to which you want to copy the Kickstart file.

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   # lsblk -l -p -o name,rm,ro,hotplug,size,type,mountpoint,uuid

2. Navigate to the file system on the volume.
3. Copy the Kickstart file to this file system.
4. Make a note of the string to use later with the inst.ks= option. This string is in the form hd:UUID=volume-UUID:path/to/kickstart-file.cfg. Note that the path is relative to the file system root, not to the / root of file system hierarchy. Replace volume-UUID with the UUID you noted earlier.

5. Unmount all drive volumes:

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   # umount /dev/xyz ...

   Add all the volumes to the command, separated by spaces.

Procedure

1. List volume information to which you want to copy the Kickstart file.

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   # lsblk -l -p

2. Navigate to the file system on the volume.
3. Copy the Kickstart file into the root of this file system.
4. Rename the Kickstart file to ks.cfg.

5. Rename the volume as OEMDRV:

   • For ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems:

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     # e2label /dev/xyz OEMDRV

   • For the XFS file system:

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     # xfs_admin -L OEMDRV /dev/xyz

   Replace /dev/xyz with the path to the volume’s block device.

6. Unmount all drive volumes:

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   # umount /dev/xyz ...

   Add all the volumes to the command, separated by spaces.