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Hi all, My kickstart section for packages is %packages @base-x @dialup @gnome-desktop @base @development-libs @core @x-software-development @mail-server @development-tools @web-server @graphical-internet @sound-and-video @legacy-software-development @editors @smb-server @ftp-server mesa-libGLU-devel device-mapper-multipath xorg-x11-server-Xnest xorg-x11-server-Xvfb imake I do not have package

I have a line like: lang en_US.UTF-8 in my kickstart file. However it stops on that screen to prompt me. Everything else works fine... I am using centos 4.6. Is this line no longer correct? I am sure I got it from a anaconda file to start with. Jerry

Hi all, I have a kickstart file that works for /dev/sda. I now need to detect an HP server and use /dev/cciss instead of hard coded /dev/sda. How can I detect what the name of the device is and use /dev/cciss and not /dev/sda? Jerry

I have 2 questions dealing with 2 different kickstart files. 1) my kickstart sections for RAID disk setup and kickstart reports it cannot find sda. Why is that. sda is there and works. clearpart --all --initlabel part raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda1 --size=20000 part swap --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap"

I am testing a CentOS 7.6 kickstart installation. After kickstart was initiated, the installation stops at some point where a sort of table is printed under "Installation", and the item that fails is 4 - Software selection, Error checking software selection. I have checked /tmp/packaging.log and /tmp/anaconda.log, but cannot find any errors here that would prevent installation. Poor

Hi all, I am wanting to add to my working kickstart post section grabbing the NVIDIA binary and installing it. I can grab the file thats not the problem. I can use the --x-module-path to pass to the binary installer... however, How do I get the correct module path, kernels are added the the yum update, and a new one comes along and wish to account for that. What is the correct way to know which

I am doing a kickstart install for CentOS 6.0 (x86_64 install) The error on screen is "fatal error occurred when install glibc package. Could indicate error with install media" When I looked at the /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log file I see Installing glibc-2.12.-1.7.el6.i686 error unpacking of archive failed on file /lib/ld-2.12.so;4e66d2ec cpio read failed bad file descriptor.

I am trying to add an efi partition to my working kickstart file. bootloader --driveorder=sda --append="rhgb quiet biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0" clearpart --all --initlabel part / --ondisk=sda --fstype xfs --size=20000 --asprimary part swap --ondisk=sda --size=4000 --asprimary part /boot/efi --ondisk=sda --fstype efi --size=1000 --asprimary part /home --ondisk=sda

Hello, I am working on a kickstart automated Centos 7 GUI vm deployment. Defining gnome desktop in kickstart works. @gnome-desktop - A GNOME desktop However Centos and anything from the epel-release such as xrdp does not work. I have tried it on different ways. repo --name=epel-release %packages #epel-release # DOES NOT WORK @ Core #@core @ Base

I have a couple lines like: part / --ondisk=sda --fstype ext3 --size=20000 --asprimary part swap --ondisk=sda --size=4000 --asprimary part /home --ondisk=sda --fstype ext3 --size=1 --asprimary --grow in my kickstart file. Is there a way to have 1 kickstart file that works for hda and sda both??? So I would like to have 1 kickstart file that works for either a hda

I can do a yum update in my post kickstart (which is what I am doing now actually). However, I want to save network time at installations. If I copy down the files from centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS and place them in a directory local on my network, can I just "rpm -U /mnt/directory/updates/x86_64/RPMS*" in my post section? Assuming I have nfs mounted the directory of course...

Hi all, trying to do an install on a ATI radeon 3200 system I am using a kickstart file from 5.2 that works fine in 5.2 First two lines of my post section I do: init 3 chvt 3 This is not happening ? When I try and do a CTRL-ALT-F2 the screen goes black, ALT-F6 to go back has a white screen with the mouse cursor showing busy and the normal background is missing or just not painted. Any

Is there a way to get all the commands in the post install section from kickstart to show in a window on the X window screenas they are being executed? Jerry

Hello, all - I've been throwing the question around on the kickstart-list for the last few days here, and can't quite get ahold of things. Please, allow me to explain. I am in the process of making a custom CentOS/RHEL kickstart install. It works well right now; however, it's a hackjob, and I am not comfortable with it as of yet. For the past few days, I've even gone as far as

I am getting an error that "--depth does not take an option" on kickstart for 6.0 This is my line in kickstart (works for 5.0) xconfig --defaultdesktop=GNOME --depth=8 --resolution=640x480 --startxonboot Why would they change that or is it broken? Jerry

I am using a kickstart file for CentOS 7 raid / --device=md0 --fstype="xfs" --level=1 --useexisting raid /home --noformat --device=md1 --level=1 --useexisting It is erroring out on the --useexisting. The exact text is: RAID volume "0" specified with "--useexisting" does not exist. What did I do wrong? Jerry

I am trying to do some new things with kickstart. I get a message that pops up "Could not allocate requested partitions" press OK to reboot. How do you go about debugging the kickstart file? How can I pop up information (in text mode) on the screen??? so I can see my values for my partitions. THanks, Jerry

I have a line in my kickstart file (ksdevice) # Network information network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=on # Default network to boot ksdevice=eth0 # Auto reboot (to being next install faze) reboot However its still poping up and asking me eth0 or eth1 for install? Has this operation changed? Thanks, Jerry

Is there a linux command that would tell me what model of monitor is presently attached to my computer? Thought about automating different setups based on the monitor connected. X config files basically. Could be done with different kickstart files - but would like to not go there if I dont have to. Jerry

I am trying to install a CentOS qemu/kvm virtual machine using a virt-install script[1]. Since Anaconda text user interface does not permit to users to edit filesystem type and mount points[2], I decided to use a kickstart file to customize such settings. To create a kickstart file, I used a trick: I installed a CentOS machine using Anaconda graphical user interface, and I made all customizations