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System installation program used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and others. Closely related to kickstart.

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How do I pass arguments from the PXE command line to a kickstart %pre, %post script?

Basically I want an ARGV like usage on the PXE command line, but I can't see any documentation to do this. basically I want to pass something like scientific-linux-6 HOSTNAME VLAN then in %pre hit some APIs to get the networking info I need to…
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Reasoning behind RHEL's use of LVM even on a single disk install

When doing a default install of RHEL5 and higher (at least - don't recall if it has done it longer), Anaconda will setup your drives into a logical volume group - even if there is only one drive. What is the purpose/reasoning behind using LVM atop a…
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Difference between CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-boot.iso and CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/8/isos/x86_64/ What's the difference between CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-boot.iso and CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso? I imagine the DVD is an installer which let's you choose which packages to install during initial…
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How to build a driver disk for an anaconda install (CentOS 6)

I need to make a driver disk for anaconda. This disk would contain an updated module for the network card of a somewhat recent laptop and the goal is to get a network install of CentOS 6.2 working. I am using cobbler so even the kickstart file…
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Anaconda kickstart and rootpw option

I've tried a few different methods of generating an encrypted password on SL 6.5, but nothing seems to work for me. I'm not finding any errors anywhere in the various /var/log/anaconda* files, but I can't log in so it's obviously not working. The…
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Error: XFS filesystem is not valid as a default fs type

Ultimate goal: Create an automated installation disk for CentOS, using a kickstart config file stored on an internal website. What I've done: Created a script that downloads an ISO unpacks it updates the isolinux.cfg file with my own menu…
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How to make conda use the host proxy inside a Docker container

Here's the situation. I'm using Docker with continuumio/anaconda3 image. I have the server (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) configured to use the corporate proxy with CNTLM package. Internet works just fine in the host through the local proxy. I have also…
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How to get CentOS 6 kickstart to ask for hostname?

I'm using the CentOS 6 netinstall ISO with some kickstart files on an http server. When the ISO boots I hit TAB and enter the boot options asknetwork ks=http:///path/to/kickstart.ks. My kickstart files do not have a network parameter, so…
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Kickstart CentOS 7 with software RAID 1, but no LVM needed

I am going to Kickstart a CentOS 7.x installation with software RAID 1 remotely for the first time. So I am kinda inexperienced at this and wondering what I need to make this work correctly. A CentOS 7.x kickstart with hardware raid, I use the…
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Can I unsilence kickstart step Performing post-installation setup tasks?

While anaconda kickstart installer runs the "Performing post-installation setup tasks" tasks are not visible on console and their outcome is only saved to ks-post.log file. I do want to also display it on the console as these steps could take a long…
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Kickstart: Can you determine %package selections in %pre

I've been looking around, and haven't yet seen an example of anyone using logic to determine packages/package group selections for options beneath %packages. I'm trying to have kickstart install packages based on criteria discovered in %pre, for…
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Have Kickstart automatically generate a root password on install

I am currently working on multiple Kickstart configs for my company to allow for easy VM deployment. I cannot find any documentation showing how to have Kickstart generate a root password. Is it possible? If not, can I pipe in output from python or…
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CentOS kickstart raid 1 and LVM issues

While doing an unattended install of CentOS 7 using kickstart. I set two disks to me mirrored. bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda,sdb zerombr clearpart --all --initlabel # Disk partitioning part raid.01 --fstype="raid" --ondisk=sda…
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How do I specify a driver disk image that is on the local cdrom?

I have a working RedHat kickstart, but I need it to load a RAID storage driver at the outset. I have the driver for this RAID card, all packaged up in a nice driver disk image. How do I specify (either with the kernel command line 'dd' or the…
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Does `mkisofs` modify the boot image and/or boot catalog?

I've been playing around with Kickstart on RHEL 6.2, and that involves re-mastering the install ISO. I've noticed something strange, though. If I issue the following command once (where diskFiles is the directory I've kept the DVD files)... mkisofs…
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