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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook

By : Jakub Gaj, William Leemans
Book Image

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook

By: Jakub Gaj, William Leemans

Overview of this book

Dominating the server market, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system gives you the support you need to modernize your infrastructure and boost your organization’s efficiency. Combining both stability and flexibility, RHEL helps you meet the challenges of today and adapt to the demands of tomorrow. This practical Cookbook guide will help you get to grips with RHEL 7 Server and automating its installation. Designed to provide targeted assistance through hands-on recipe guidance, it will introduce you to everything you need to know about KVM guests and deploying multiple standardized RHEL systems effortlessly. Get practical reference advice that will make complex networks setups look like child’s play, and dive into in-depth coverage of configuring a RHEL system. Also including full recipe coverage of how to set up, configuring, and troubleshoot SELinux, you’ll also discover how secure your operating system, as well as how to monitor it.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a kickstart file


A kickstart file is essentially a file containing all the necessary answers to questions that are asked during a typical install. It was created by Red Hat in response to the need for automated installs. Using kickstart, an admin can create one file or template containing all the instructions.

There are three ways to create a kickstart file:

  • By hand

  • Using the GUI's system-config-kickstart tool

  • Using the standard Red Hat installation program Anaconda

In this recipe, I will cover a combination of the first two.

Getting ready

Before we can get down to the nitty-gritty of generating our base kickstart file or template, we need to install system-config-kickstart. Run the following command:

~# yum install -y system-config-kickstart

How to do it…

First, let's create a base template for our kickstart file(s) through the following steps:

  1. First, launch Kickstart Configurator from the menu.

  2. Select your system's basic configuration from the Kickstart Configurator GUI.

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