Installing with Kickstart

Kickstart provides a method of automating the installation process by providing a file which contains the answers to the questions that would be asked during installation. NVIDIA provides kickstart templates for all supported platforms in the following locations:

• https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/el/el-files/9/el9-ks/dgx1-ks.cfg

• https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/el/el-files/9/el9-ks/dgx2-ks.cfg

• https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/el/el-files/9/el9-ks/dgx-a100-ks.cfg

• https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/el/el-files/9/el9-ks/dgx-a800-ks.cfg

• https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/el/el-files/9/el9-ks/dgx-h100-ks.cfg

• https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/el/el-files/9/el9-ks/dgxstation-ks.cfg

• https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/el/el-files/9/el9-ks/dgxstation-a100-ks.cfg

• https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/el/el-files/9/el9-ks/dgxstation-a800-ks.cfg

For more information on using kickstart files with Red Hat 9, refer to the 27.2. How Do You Perform a Kickstart Installation? section in Red Hat documentation.

In these files are tags that you must replace with your site specific information: language, keyboard, timezone, hostname, etc.

Each tag is of the form “CHANGE_YOUR_xxxx”. These tags must be replaced with your specific information.

Once you have a kickstart file customized for your installation, place that file in a location that can be accessed by NFS, FTP, HTTP, or HTTPS.

After booting from the installation medium, when the grub menu appears, press e to edit the grub entry as you normally would to add the “nomodeset” option. In addition to “nomodeset”, add an option in the format “inst.ks=<URL>”.

For example:

inst.ks=https://192.168.1.2/kickstart/dgx-a100-cfg.ks

Lastly, after using these kickstart files – remember to reboot the system one final time to apply all settings.