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IT 3110 : Advanced System Administration

Netboot 2

Kickstart

We can automagically answer all the questions that the installer wants through the use of a kickstart file. Like this. You may want to edit this to reflect what you want.

How to make it work

  • Set dhcp to netboot as given in the previous slides
  • Edit the `/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default so that it looks something like this
  • Make sure that you have your ks.cfg file hosted on an apache webserver and point the above file to it.