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mrTomahawk
Asked: 2009-05-09 07:35:58 +0800 CST

kickstart installation command paramters

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Does anyone know of any listing of the different parameters that can be used in the command when installing a unix/linux host via kickstart? Specifically I'm look for ones in regards to ESX/Red Hat. These are the ones I know of so far:

ks=          'Points to the .cfg install configuration file ftp/http/usb
ksdevice=    'indicates which ethernet adapter to use
ip=          'indicates what ip to use for install
netmask=     'indicates what netmask to use for install
gateway=     'indicates what gateway to use for install
nameserver=  'indicates what nameserver is in your enviornment
method=      'type of install i.e. cdrom (I don't know what other methods there are)

Is there one for hostname?, I thought there was, but after preforming the install, the name I gave fro the command "hostname=svr01.local" was not the resulted hostname.

linux command-line-interface vmware-esx

2 Answers

  1. Here's a link to a sample ESX 3.5 Kickstart script. It seems in later versions of ESX, they are designating the hostname on the network config line.

    ESX Kickstart Scripts

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  2. Best Answer

    Here is a list of kickstart options from the RHEL/CentOS 5.2 documentation.

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