Installing Linux on a large number of nodes with a kickstart file has a few advantages. For example, the installation process can be automated by specifying a list of to-be installed packages and configuring system settings for the post-installation process.
In this section, we will cover steps of creating a kickstart file and a USB boot media with the operating system image.
A kickstart file is a plain text file used for the automatic installation of Linux.
Prepare a USB flash drive with storage capacity larger than 512MB. The drive should have a single
vfat
filesystem partition. We can use the following command to check the filesystem type:blkid
If the
TYPE
attribute is other thanvfat
, use the following command to clear the first few blocks of the drive:dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M count=100
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