You can save your kickstart file to a USB stick (or any other medium), but this becomes a bit cumbersome if you need to install multiple systems in different locations.
Loading kickstart files over the network from the kernel line during an install only supports NFS, HTTP, and FTP.
In this recipe, I choose HTTP as it is a common technology within companies and easy to secure.
Let's start by installing Apache httpd
, as follows:
Install Apache
httpd
through the following command:~]# yum install -y httpd
Enable and start the
httpd
daemon, as follows:~]# systemctl enable httpd ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/httpd.service' ~]# systemctl start httpd
Create a directory to contain the kickstart file(s) by running the following command:
~]# mkdir -p /var/www/html/kickstart ~]# chown apache:apache /var/www/html/kickstart ~]# chmod 750 /var/www/html/kickstart
Copy your kickstart file to...