/kickstart

Kickstart Notes

Modification Instructions

Based on CentOS Minimal ISO

On OS X follow following procedure (assuming /dev/disk2 is the next available device):

mkdir /tmp/centos_iso /tmp/centos_ks
hdiutil attach -nomount CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1611.iso
mount /dev/disk2 /tmp/centos_iso
rsync -arv /tmp/centos_iso /tmp/centos_ks

Using /tmp/centos_ks as the working folder:

  • overwrite /isolinux/isolinux.cfg with the one in this repo.
  • copy the ks.cfg to the root
  • run mkpasswd -m sha-512 on any linux machine to generate a crypted password (haven't found a nice way to do this on OS X that doesn't involve Python)
  • replace rootpw --iscrypted ######## with your own crypted password
  • then run the command to make the iso

Make ISO

sudo mkisofs -R -J -v -T -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -joliet-long -o ~/centos/CentOS-7-custom.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -V "CentOS 7 x86_64" .

N.B. Volume label needs to be equal to what's used in isolinux.cfg