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7.4.9.2. Kickstart Profiles
Figure 7.8. Kickstart Profiles
This page lists all profiles for your organization, whether those profiles are active, and the distribution
tree to which that profile is associated. You can either create a new kickstart profile by clicking the
create new kickstart profile
link, upload or paste the contents of a new kickstart using the
upload
new kickstart file
, or edit an existing profile by clicking the name of the profile.
7.4.9.3. Create a New Kickstart Profile
Click on the
Create a New Kickstart Profile
link from the
Systems
�
Kickstart
page to start the brief
wizard that populates the base values needed for a kickstart profile.
1. On the first line, enter a kickstart profile label. This label cannot contain spaces, so use dashes (-)
or underscores (_) as separators.
2. Select a
Base Channel
for this profile, which consists of packages based on a specific
architecture and Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, such as
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v.5 for
32-bit x86)
.
3. Select a kickstartable tree for this profile. The kickstartable tree drop-down menu is only populated
if one or more distributions have been created for the selected base channel.
4. Select the
Virtualization Type
from the drop-down menu. For more information about
virtualization, refer to
Chapter 10, Virtualization
.