A quick note about extracting and recreating RHEL6 or Centos6 (and their derivations) installation media components: Initrd: Extract: Archive (after you applied your changes): /images/install.img: Extract: Archive (after you applied your changes): Additional note for Anaconda installation parameters: I did not test it, however there is a boot flag called stage2= which should lead to…
Installation of minimal selection of Centos 5 – only base, core and dialup selections, will leave a small-sized system, with the minimum required. This is a good setup to start setting up a firewall, and it lets you add any required package later using ‘yum’. This said, you cannot forward X over SSH at this…
Kickstart is a great method of hands-free installation of RHEL/Centos (and other derived systems). Its power is in its easy interface and rather powerful %post scripting directives. Its weakness is in its lack of flexibility where it comes to package selection and various custom actions. On some cases, companies use web interface (usually home-made) which…
