Appendix C: Automated Installation#

This section provides information about automated installations.

C.1 Installing with Kickstart#

Kickstart provides a way to automate the installation process by providing a configuration file with the answers to commonly asked installation questions. NVIDIA provides the following Kickstart template for Grace platforms: https://repo.download.nvidia.com/baseos/el/el-files/9/el9-ks/grace-ks.cfg

For more information about using Kickstart files with RHEL 9, refer to RHEL on ARM platforms with the 64k kernel.

In these files, there are tags that you must replace with site-specific information including the following:

  • Language

  • Keyboard

  • Timezone

  • Hostname

Each tag is in the <CHANGE_YOUR_xxxx> form and must be replaced with your information.

  1. After 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.

  2. After booting from the installation medium, when the grub menu appears, press e to edit the grub entry and append inst.ks=<URL> to the list of kernel boot parameters.

For example:

inst.ks=https://192.168.1.2/kickstart/grace-ks.cfg