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What is Linux Linux Architecture Filesystem & Directory Structure

VI-EDITOR

Operation Modes VI-Editor Commands

Process Management

What is Linux Process? Linux Process Management

Linux Installation

Linux Installation - Physical Servers

Disk Partitions & File System Management

Disk Partitions File Systems

Logical Volume Management - LVM

What is LVM? LVM Commands & Scenarios

User & Group Administration

What is User & Group? Managing Users and Groups

Package Management

Package Management using RPM Package Management using YUM

Network File System - NFS

What is NFS? NFS Server & Client Configuration

Domain Naming System - DNS

What is DNS? DNS Architecture Configure DNS Server Configure DNS Client DNS Summary

Apache HTTP Web Server

What is HTTP Web Server? HTTP Web Server Architecture Configure Apache HTTP Web Server

KickStart Installations

What is KickStart? Configure KickStart Server

FTP server

What is FTP Server? FTP Architecture Configure FTP Server Configure FTP Client FTP Summary

BOOT PROCESS

What is Boot Process? Boot Process Stages

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - DHCP

What is DHCP? DHCP Architecture Configure DHCP Server

Job Scheduling

Cron Jobs Management Cron Job Summary

File Links

Soft Link vs Hard Link

Swap Management

What is Swap?

Log Management

Log Rotate rsyslog

Performance Management

How to Monitor Performance? Performance Tools

Linux Troubleshooting

SingleUserMode vs RescueMode vs EmergencyMode Configure Kdump

Linux Summary

Linux Configuration Files Linux Interview Questions

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Configure KickStart Server

How to configure KickStart Server

  • Create a kickstart file.
  • Create a boot media with the kickstart file or make the kickstart file available on the network.
  • Make the installation tree available.
  • Start the kickstart installation.

Create and Copy Kiskstart File to FTP Server Path

  • On the first step go to your PXE machine /root directory and copy the file named anaconda-ks.cfg to vsftpd default server path (/var/ftp/pub) 

  • Verify  the  ownership,  this should  be owned  by  ftp  user 

  • Edit  the ks.cfg  file  with  required  changes..  and validate  the  kickstart  file  using ksvalidator

  • Make  sure  FTP  is  configure  on  this  server  and  anonymous  is  configured.

How to configure KickStart Client

  • Insert  RHEL  media (Physical Server )
  • Login  to  the  console  and  boot  the  machine  to  BIOS  settings  by  pressing  F2  at  startup
  • Define  cdrom  as  first  bootable  device and  exit from  BIOS

  • Next  is  the  installation  screen  appears  ,  here  need  to  press  esc  to  enter in to boot  menu  as  below

  • Then  the  installation  proceeds   as  un-attended  installation  by  taking  the  answers  from  kickstart file.

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