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Provisioning HowTo

3. Create a Kickstart Profile

4. Provision/reprovision machines

5. Kickstart Trees And Software Content

You must have at least one kickstart tree installed on your Satellite in order to use kickstart

provisioning. Satellite supports both automatic and manual kickstart tree installation.

5.1. Automatically Installed Kickstart Trees

Automatic kickstart tree installation is a function of normal channel synchronization. For each

distribution you intend to base kickstarts on, you must synchronize that distribution's base channel

along with its corresponding RHN tools channel to your Satellite. If you are using a connected

Satellite, you will synchronize your Satellite with Red Hat's servers directly. If your Satellite is

disconnected, you'll need to obtain and sync from disconnected channel dumps (again available from

Red Hat's servers). Regardless of the mechanism, the act of synching the channel automatically

creates a corresponding kickstart tree for that distribution.

For example, if you want to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for x86 architecture, you would want to

sync the rhel-i386-server-5 channel and it's corresponding rhn-tools channel labeled rhn-

tools-rhel-i386-server-5.

For more information on syncing content, refer to Section 6.2 of the Satellite Installation Guide.

5.2. Manually Installed Kickstart Trees

If you want to use Satellite to kickstart a custom distribution, a distribution not supported by Red Hat,

or a beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you need to create a corresponding kickstart tree. To

install a kickstart tree in one of these situations, you need to perform the following tasks:

1. Obtain the installation ISO from wherever is appropriate for the distribution

2. Copy the ISO to your satellite server and mount it to /mnt/iso

3. Copy the contents of the ISO to a custom location. It is recommended that you create a directory

within /var/satellite for all of your custom distros. For example, you might copy a RHEL

beta distribution's contents to /var/satellite/custom-distro/rhel-i386-server-5.3-

beta/

4. Create a custom software channel with the Satellite web interface. (Navigate to Channel =>

Manage Software Channels => Create Channel) and create a base channel with an appropriate

name and label. In keeping with the example RHEL beta version above, we might use the label

rhel-5.3-beta.

5. Push the software packages (rpm files) from the tree location to the newly created software

channel. Given our example above, you would do so by running

rhnpush --server=http://localhost/APP -c 'rhel-5.3-beta' -d /var/

satellite/custom-distro/rhel-i386-server-5.3-beta/Server/

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