Specifications

1. Click “Systems” in the top navigation pane
2. On the left navigation pane click “Kickstart”
3. In the “Kickstart Actions” pane click “Create a New Kickstart Profile”
4. On “Step 1”
1. Provide a “Label” for the kickstart “rhel5_base_bare_metal”
2. On “Base Channel” select “Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64)
3. On “Kickstartable Tree” select “ks-thrl-x86_64-server-5-u6”
4. On “Virtualization Type” select “KVM Virtualized Guest”
5. Click “Next”
5. On “Step 2”
1. Click “Next”
6. On “Step 3”
1. Provide a root password
7. Click “Finish”
8. Click “Activation Keys” in the upper navigation menu
1. In the “Kickstart Details” screen, select the “mrg-manager” key
2. Click “Update Activation Keys”
Automate the Kickstart by Adding post scripts
Target System: Browser with access to RHN
1. Click “Systems” on the upper navigation menu
2. Click “Kickstart” on left navigation menu
3. Click “View a list of Kickstart Profiles” in the “Kickstart Actions” pane
4. Select the “mrg-manager” kickstart profile
5. Click on “Scripts” on the upper navigation menu
6. Click “Add new Kickstart Script” in the upper navigation menu
1. Add the following content
wget http://sat-vm.rhcf.lab/pub/scripts/mrgMgr-config.sh -O
/tmp/mrg-install.sh
chmod +x /tmp/mrg-install.sh
/tmp/mrg-install.sh
2. Change “Script Execution Time” to “Post Script”
3. Click “Update Kickstart”
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