Kickstart Examples – Configuration 2

Kickstart Examples – Configuration 2

Networking:

• Bootproto = dhcp
• Hostname = centvm1
• Disable IPv6

Partitioning:
Simple paritioning

• /boot – ext4 – size 500M
• / – ext4 – size 5G
• Swap – size 2G

General:

• SELinux enabled
• Firewall rule added for SSH
• TimeZone – Europe/London
• CentOS Minimal – Core
• Add a user named testuser

Kickstart config

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# Install options
install
url --url ftp://192.168.122.249/images/centos/x86_64/6.5
keyboard uk
lang en_US
selinux --enforcing
timezone --utc Europe/London

# Set up root password
rootpw --iscrypted $6$jgrdXC4a/XBlOZkv$A49cH1mwaK7K91.EM/GDdiFO7NBt4CXk3omKntDk35UEyzjWBeJl2x6oGPuH0HRYLjJNUhYDsHRjyEGjsMFp50

# Create an user with encrypted password
user --name=testuser --password=$6$jgrdXC4a/XBlOZkv$A49cH1mwaK7K91.EM/GDdiFO7NBt4CXk3omKntDk35UEyzjWBeJl2x6oGPuH0HRYLjJNUhYDsHRjyEGjsMFp50 --iscrypted

# Networking options
network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname centvm1 --noipv6

# Authentication options
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo-sha512

# Bootloader options
# Harddisk in this case is /dev/vda
zerombr
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=vda --append="crashkernel=auto"

# Add an exception for ssh in firewall
firewall --service=ssh

# Partitioning
clearpart --all --initlabel
part / --fstype=ext4 --size=5000
part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=500
part swap --fstype=swap --size=2000

# Reboot after installation
reboot

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%packages --nobase
@Core

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