Hi,
I have few questions to make this kickstart file to be more efficient:
1) I would like to reboot the server once the installation (included installed all the optional rpm) is done.
2) Is there a nicer way to install rpm packages? (Here I included the commands in my kickstart file)
# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.
install
nfs --server=10.10.10.200 --dir=/vault/redhat/rhel5/5.1/x86_64
key --skip
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
xconfig --startxonboot
network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 10.10.10.20 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 10.10.10.1 --nameserver
10.10.10.100--hostname abc
network --device eth1 --onboot no --bootproto dhcp --hostname abc
rootpw --iscrypted $1$r3I9vk75$JWCGlXqgYd0/55lfg09NJ.
firewall --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
selinux --disabled
timezone --utc America/New_York
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="rhgb quiet"
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
clearpart --all --drives=sda
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda
part pv.6 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.6
logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=25600
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=8192
logvol /abc --fstype ext2 --name=LogVol03 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=25216
logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol02 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10240
%packages
@editors
@core
@base
@java
@base-x
@admin-tools
kexec-tools
device-mapper-multipath
xorg-x11-utils
xorg-x11-server-Xnest
libsane-hpaio
-sysreport
%post
chkconfig --del autofs
chkconfig --del bluetooth
chkconfig --del cpuspeed
chkconfig --del dhcdbd
chkconfig --del dund
chkconfig --del gpm
chkconfig --del hidd
chkconfig --del ip6tables
chkconfig --del iptables
chkconfig --del irda
chkconfig --del netconsole
chkconfig --del pand
chkconfig --del pcscd
chkconfig --del rhnsd
chkconfig --del wpa_supplicant
chkconfig --del yum_updatesd
mkdir -p /mnt/cd
mount /dev/hda /mnt/cd
cd /mnt/cd/Server
rpm -i cpp-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i ypserv-2.19-3.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i ntp-4.2.2p1-7.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i am-utils-6.1.5-4.1.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i gdb-6.5-25.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i strace-4.5.16-1.el5.1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i bind-devel-9.3.3-10.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i bind-9.3.3-10.el5.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i bind-chroot-9.3.3-10.el5.x86_64.rpm