Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT, Reference Manual

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Kickstart Actions widget in the upper right corner.
3. The next page displayed is Step 1 of the kickstart profile creation process:
a. Enter a label for the profile that will allow you to distinguish it from the other profiles. A
good choice would be guest-system.
b. For the Base Channel field, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux $PRODUCT (v.5 for
$ARCH) where $ARCH is the architecture of your host system's operating system and
$PRODUCT is either Server or Client.
Note
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client 5 may not be available for selection if you did not
sync the Client software channels to your Satellite.
Tip
Please note that the channel labels for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop refer to 'server' and 'client' respectively.
c. For the Kickstartable Tree field, you should select ks-rhel-$ARCH-$PRODUCT-5 where
$ARCH is the architecture of your host system and $PRODUCT is either 'server' or 'client',
depending on which product with which you would like to provision your guest.
d. Select Para-Virtualized Guest for the Virtualization Type field.
e. Finally, click the Next button in the lower right of the screen to continue on to the next
step.
4. For Step 2 of the kickstart profile creation process, select the location of the distribution files
for the installation of your guest system. There should already be a Default Download
Location filled out and selected for you on this screen. Click the Next button on this screen
to continue to Step 3.
Note
As in the previous step, if the default download location is missing, you may not
have successfully synced software channel content to your Satellite from Red
Hat's servers.
5. For Step 3 of the kickstart profile creation process, choose a root password for the guest
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