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Guided Exercise: Automating Installation With Kickstart: Outcomes

This document provides instructions for automating the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 using a kickstart file. It outlines steps to create and validate a kickstart file, make modifications to it including commenting out certain commands and changing values, and copy the file to the HTTP server directory for PXE/network booting installations. The goal is to simplify the kickstart file and point it to installation resources on the classroom network.

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Guided Exercise: Automating Installation With Kickstart: Outcomes

This document provides instructions for automating the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 using a kickstart file. It outlines steps to create and validate a kickstart file, make modifications to it including commenting out certain commands and changing values, and copy the file to the HTTP server directory for PXE/network booting installations. The goal is to simplify the kickstart file and point it to installation resources on the classroom network.

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Guided Exercise: Automating Installation with

Kickstart
Outcomes
You should be able to:
 Create a kickstart file.
 Use ksvalidator to validate the kickstart file's syntax.
 Copy /root/anaconda-ks.cfg on servera to a file called
/home/student/kickstart.cfg so that student can edit. Use the sudo cat
/root/anaconda-ks.cfg > ~/kickstart.cfg command to copy the contents of
/root/anaconda-ks.cfg to /home/student/kickstart.cfg. If sudo prompts for
the password of the student user, use student as the password.
 [student@servera ~]$ sudo cat /root/anaconda-ks.cfg > ~/kickstart.cfg

[sudo] password for student: student

 Make the following changes to /home/student/kickstart.cfg.


 Comment out the reboot directive:

#reboot

 Comment out the repo command for the BaseOS repository. Modify the repo
command for AppStream to point to the classroom's AppStream repository:
 #repo --name="koji-override-0" --baseurl=http://download-node-
02.eng.bos.redhat.com/rhel-8/devel/candidate-trees/RHEL-8/RHEL-
8.0.0-20190213.0/compose/BaseOS/x86_64/os

repo --name="appstream"
--baseurl=http://classroom.example.com/content/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/Ap
pStream/

 Change the url command to specify the classroom's HTTP installation source
media:

url --url="http://classroom.example.com/content/rhel8.0/x86_64/dvd/"

 Comment out the network command:

#network --bootproto=dhcp --device=link --activate

 Set the root password to redhat. Change the line that starts with rootpw to:

rootpw --plaintext redhat


 Delete the line that uses the auth command and add the authselect select sssd
line to set the sssd service as the identity and authentication source.

authselect select sssd

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, the authselect command replaces the


authconfig command.
 Simplify the services command to look exactly like the following:

services --disabled="kdump,rhsmcertd" --enabled="sshd,rngd,chronyd"

 Comment out the part and reqpart commands. Add the autopart command:
 #reqpart
 # Disk partitioning information
 #part / --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=vda --size=8000

autopart

 Delete all content between the %post section and its %end. Add the following
line: echo "Kickstarted on $(date)" >> /etc/issue
The entire %post section should look like this.

%post --erroronfail
echo "Kickstarted on $(date)" >> /etc/issue
%end

 Simplify the package specification to look exactly like the following:


 %packages
 @core
 chrony
 dracut-config-generic
 dracut-norescue
 firewalld
 grub2
 kernel
 rsync
 tar
 httpd
 -plymouth

%end

When you are finished editing the file save and exit.
 Use the ksvalidator command to check the Kickstart file for syntax errors.

[student@servera ~]$ ksvalidator kickstart.cfg


 Copy kickstart.cfg to the /var/www/html/ks-config directory.

[student@servera ~]$ sudo cp ~/kickstart.cfg /var/www/html/ks-config

Installing and Configuring Virtual Machines


[root@host ~]# yum module list virt

Name Stream Profiles Summary

virt rhel [d][e] common [d] Virtualization modu

[root@host ~]# yum module install virt

[root@host ~]# virt-host-validate

Install the cockpit-machines package to add the Virtual Machines menu to Cockpit.

[root@host ~]# yum install cockpit-machines

If Cockpit is not already running, start and enable it.

[root@host ~]# systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

To create a new virtual machine with Cockpit, access the Virtual Machines menu in the
Cockpit web interface. From there, click Create VM and enter the VM configuration in the
Create New Virtual Machine window.

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