Kickstart - generate RedHat Kickstart files.
Kickstart uses the SysConfig.pm module to allow a perl script to make method calls which generate a RedHat Kickstart file.
The auth method allows for the configuration of various authentication parameters such as MD5 and Shadow passwords, and NIS, LDAP, Kerberos and Hesiod configuration.
enablemd5 use md5 password encryption
enablenis enable NIS support
nisdomain specify a domain name for NIS
nisserver specify a server to use with NIS
useshadow use shadow passwords
enableldap enable LDAP user authentication
ldapserver specify an LDAP server
ldapbasedn specify the base LDAP domain name
enablekrb5 enable Kerberos 5 authentication
krb5realm specify the Kerberos realm
krb5kdc specify a list of KDC values
krb5adminserver specify the master KDC
enablehesiod enable Hesiod support for directory lookup
hesiodlhs specify heriod lhs (left-hand side)
hesiodrhs specify heriod rhs (right-hand side)
Specify which partitions on a disk to remove in order to set up the correct partitions.
all removes all partitions
linux remove ext2, swap raid partitions
Not currently working.
Specify a disk which will be copied to the root directory of the installed system.
partition specify the partition containing the driver disk
type specify the file system type of the partition
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The keyboard method is used to specify the type of keyboard which is attached to a system.
Valid values for x86 architecture include:
azerty, be-latin1, be2-latin1, fr-latin0, fr-latin1, fr-pc, fr, wangbe, ANSI-dvorak, dvorak-l, dvorak-r, dvorak, pc-dvorak-latin1, tr_f-latin5, trf, bg, cf, cz-lat2-prog, cz-lat2, defkeymap, defkeymap_V1.0, dk-latin1, dk. emacs, emacs2, es, fi-latin1, fi, gr-pc, gr, hebrew, hu101, is-latin1, it-ibm, it, it2, jp106, la-latin1, lt, lt.l4, nl, no-latin1, no, pc110, pl, pt-latin1, pt-old, ro, ru-cp1251, ru-ms, ru-yawerty, ru, ru1, ru2, ru_win, se-latin1, sk-prog-qwerty, sk-prog, sk-qwerty, tr_q-latin5, tralt, trf, trq, ua, uk, us, croat, cz-us-qwertz, de-latin1-nodeadkeys, de-latin1, de, fr_CH-latin1, fr_CH, hu, sg-latin1-lk450, sg-latin1, sg, sk-prog-qwertz, sk-qwertz, slovene
and for Sparc:
sun-pl-altgraph, sun-pl, sundvorak, sunkeymap, sunt4-es, sunt4-no-latin1, sunt5-cz-us, sunt5-de-latin1, sunt5-es, sunt5-fi-latin1, sunt5-fr-latin1, sunt5-ru, sunt5-uk, sunt5-us-cz
The lang method is used to specify the type of language which will be used during the installation.
Valid languages include:
cs_CZ, en_US, fr_FR, de_DE, hu_HU, is_IS, id_ID, it_IT, ja_JP.ujis, no_NO, pl_PL, ro_RO, sk_SK, sl_SI, es_ES, ru_RU.KOI8-R, uk_UA
Use en_US to specify US english.
append specify arguments to be passed to the kernel linear specify that LILO to work in linear mode location specify the locatation where LILO will be written
If set, LILO will not perform an installation onto a system which has LILO written in the master boot record of the first hard drive.
The mouse method specifies which mouse type should be configured for the system.
Valid mouse types include:
alpsps/2, ascii, asciips/2, atibm, generic, generic3, genericps/2, generic3ps/2, geniusnm, geniusnmps/2, geniusnsps/2, thinking, thinkingps/2, logitech, logitechcc, logibm, logimman, logimmanps/2, logimman+, logimman+ps/2, microsoft, msnew, msintelli, msintellips/2, msbm, mousesystems, mmseries, mmhittab, sun, none
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asprimary
bytes-per-inode
dir
grow
maxsize
noformat
ondisk
onpart
onprimary
size
type
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device specify the name of the device (eg. md0, ...)
dir specify the mount point of the raid device
level specify the raid level to use (0, 1 or 5)
partitions an array of partitions to use for the device
Use the reboot method to specify that the system should be rebooted after completing the installation.
The rootpw method can either be called by passing a hash reference to it, or with a scalar value. If the root password being specified is already encrypted, you should call rootpw with a hash reference and set iscrypted to be on.
iscrypted specify that the password is encrypted rootpw specify the root password
It is possible to skip X11 configuration entirely by using the skipx method.
The timezone method can be called by passing a hash reference to it, or with a scalar value. If the hardware clock is set to Greenwich Mean Time, you should call the method with a hash reference and set utc to be on.
timezone specify the timezone the system will be located in utc specify that the hardware clock is set to UTC
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The xconfig method can be used to configure the X Windowing System.
card specify which type of card to use
defaultdesktop specify to use kde or gnome
hsync specify the horizontal sync freq.
monitor specify what type of monitor to use
noprobe specify to not probe the monitor
startxonboot specify using run level 5 (instead of 3)
vsync specify the vertical sync freq.
Specify that the master boot record of the primary drive should be initialized.
Written by Patrick Devine, 2001.
