Kickstart Examples – Configuration 5

Kickstart Examples – Configuration 5

Networking:

• Bootproto = static
• Hostname = centvm1
• IP = 192.168.122.200
• Netmask = 255.255.255.0
• Gateway = 192.168.122.1
• Nameserver = 192.168.122.1
• Disable IPv6

Partitioning:

• /boot –ext4 –size 500M
• LVM paritioning
• Volume Group – size 7G
• Logical volume – lv_root – size 5G
• Logical volume – lv_swap – size 1.5G

General:

• SELinux enabled
• Firewall rule added for SSH
• TimeZone – Europe/London
• CentOS Minimal – Core
• Add a user named testuser
• Install httpd package and enable & start the service

Kickstart config

# =======================================
# SECTION 1: Command section
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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 static --ip 192.168.122.200 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.122.1 --nameserver 192.168.122.1 --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 /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=500
part pv.001 --size 7000
volgroup my_volgp pv.001
logvol / --fstype=ext4 --vgname=my_volgp --size=5000 --name=lv_root
logvol swap --fstype=swap --vgname=my_volgp --size 1500 --name=lv_swap

# Reboot after installation
reboot

# =======================================
# SECTION 2: Packages section
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%packages --nobase
@Core
httpd

# =======================================
# SECTION 3: Pre section (optional)
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# =======================================
# SECTION 4: Post section (optional)
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%post
chkconfig httpd on
service httpd start