Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUAL SERVER ADMINISTRATION, Installation Manual

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Kickstart Options
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--enablecache
— Enables the
nscd
service. The
nscd
service caches information about
users, groups, and various other types of information. Caching is especially helpful if you
choose to distribute information about users and groups over your network using NIS, LDAP, or
hesiod.
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--passalgo
— Enables SHA256 or SHA512 hashing for passphrases. Use
--
passalgo=sha256
or
--passalgo=sha215
and remove the
--enablemd5
if present.
bootloader
(required)
Specifies how the boot loader should be installed. This option is required for both installations and
upgrades.
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--append=
— Specifies kernel parameters. To specify multiple parameters, separate them with
spaces. For example:
bootloader ­­­location=mbr ­­­append="hdd=ide­scsi ide=nodma"
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--driveorder
— Specify which drive is first in the BIOS boot order. For example:
bootloader ­­­driveorder=sda,hda
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--hvargs
— If using
GRUB
, specifies Xen hypervisor arguments. To specify multiple
parameters, separate them with spaces. For example:
bootloader ­­­hvargs="dom0_mem=2G dom0_max_vcpus=4"
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--location=
— Specifies where the boot record is written. Valid values are the following:
mbr
(the default),
partition
(installs the boot loader on the first sector of the partition containing
the kernel), or
none
(do not install the boot loader).
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--password=
— If using GRUB, sets the GRUB boot loader password to the one specified
with this option. This should be used to restrict access to the GRUB shell, where arbitrary kernel
options can be passed.
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--md5pass=
— If using GRUB, similar to
--password=
except the password should already
be encrypted.
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--upgrade
— Upgrade the existing boot loader configuration, preserving the old entries. This
option is only available for upgrades.
clearpart
(optional)
Removes partitions from the system, prior to creation of new partitions. By default, no partitions
are removed.
Note
If the
clearpart
command is used, then the
--onpart
command cannot be used
on a logical partition.
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--all
— Erases all partitions from the system.