Red Hat 8 Example Kickstart Configuration to Deploy to NVMe Drives

https://www.spxlabs.com/blog/2022/3/17/red-hat-8-example-kickstart-configuration-to-deploy-to-nvme-drives

Here is a example kickstart file for when deploying to an NVMe drive using PXE. So far this works on Red Hat 8.3 to 8.5.

Example Configuration #version=RHEL8

Use graphical install

graphical

repo –name=”AppStream” –baseurl=ftp://192.168.1.69/pub/rhel8.5/AppStream

%packages @^workstation-product-environment @development @dotnet-core @gnome-apps @graphical-admin-tools @internet-applications @office-suite @security-tools kexec-tools

%end

Keyboard layouts

keyboard –vckeymap=us –xlayouts=’us’

System language

lang en_US.UTF-8

Network information

network –bootproto=dhcp –hostname=localhost

Use Network Installation

url –url=”ftp://192.168.1.69/pub/rhel8.5/BaseOS”

EULA

eula –agreed

Run the Setup Agent on first boot

firstboot –disable

Reboot after installation

reboot

ignoredisk –only-use=nvme0n1

System bootloader configuration

bootloader –append=”crashkernel=auto” –location=mbr –boot-drive=nvme0n1

Initialise (format) all disks

zerombr

Partition clearing information

clearpart –all –drives=nvme0n1 –initlabel

Disk partitioning information for a 1TB drive

part /boot –fstype=”xfs” –ondisk=nvme0n1 –size=1024 –fsoptions=”nosuid,nodev” part /boot/efi –fstype=”efi” –ondisk=nvme0n1 –size=600 –fsoptions=”umask=0077,shortname=winnt,nodev” part swap –fstype=”swap” –ondisk=nvme0n1 –size=15384 part pv.4675 –fstype=”lvmpv” –ondisk=nvme0n1 –size=958753

#volume groups volgroup rhel –pesize=4096 pv.4675 logvol / –fstype=”xfs” –size=614400 –name=root –vgname=rhel logvol /home –fstype=”xfs” –size=204800 –name=home –vgname=rhel –fsoptions=”nosuid,nodev” logvol /tmp –fstype=”xfs” –size=6427 –name=tmp –vgname=rhel –fsoptions=”noexec,nosuid,nodev” logvol /var –fstype=”xfs” –size=62400 –name=var –vgname=rhel –fsoptions=”nosuid,nodev” logvol /var/tmp –fstype=”xfs” –size=20000 –name=var_tmp –vgname=rhel –fsoptions=”noexec,nosuid,nodev” logvol /var/log –fstype=”xfs” –size=20000 –name=var_log –vgname=rhel –fsoptions=”noexec,nosuid,nodev” logvol /var/log/audit –fstype=”xfs” –size=20482 –name=var_log_audit –vgname=rhel –fsoptions=”noexec,nosuid,nodev”

System timezone

timezone America/Chicago –isUtc –nontp

Root password

rootpw –iscrypted $(&(^(HKNklsjkfh979ujklahsndofuao(&(&()@)kajdlfjl2@^#(&skjciusz. user –name=spx –password=$987(#&Y(HAKSH(#Yjbnskuy982y3iB(@#&924429&(113421z(&^. –iscrypted –gecos=”spx”

%addon com_redhat_kdump –enable –reserve-mb=’auto’

%end

%anaconda pwpolicy root –minlen=6 –minquality=1 –notstrict –nochanges –notempty pwpolicy user –minlen=6 –minquality=1 –notstrict –nochanges –emptyok pwpolicy luks –minlen=6 –minquality=1 –notstrict –nochanges –notempty %end

#Post script section %post –log=/root/ks-post.log %end