[CentOS] Kickstart is my friend

Wed Mar 1 11:20:29 UTC 2006
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

At 02:53 AM 3/1/2006, Will McDonald wrote:
>On 28/02/06, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> > Only things:
> >
> > Did stop at the bootup to create a user id.  Not a big deal in this
> > case, as I was logging on as root to do a yum update.
>
>You mean during the Kickstart install? Or on firstboot afterwards?

1st boot afterwards.  I will have to read the post processing 
instructions to create the userid and to set the display resolution.


> > X was started to give me a progress of the install.  So I will want
> > to figure out how to get that in character mode next time.  Just on
> > general principles.
>
>Simply adding "text" on a line on its own in the main config should
>prevent the X installer (though not necessarily the installation or
>configuration of X itself).

hoped it would be so simple.


>The Kickstart section of the RHEL documentation should help you.
>
>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html

that is what got me this far!

I do want to do a real comparison between the before and after 
andaconda-ks-cfg files.  There seems to be a few differences....

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