To Edit the Kickstart or the YaST Files

Kickstart is a Red Hat configuration application. YaST, or the AutoYaST module of YaST2, is a SUSE configuration application. Both offer GUIs for the creation and editing of the resulting host file. The BMI server offers a browser to the file. Typically, it is easier to use the application than to edit the file.

1. Open the configuration file.

   • To edit the file using the GUI, open the configuration application.

   • To edit the file using a text editor, open the file in the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/MAC-address-of-system-to-provision/ directory.

2. Verify that the following parameters have the same value as the host that you are provisioning:

   • Host name – Check that the host name in the file is the same as the host name you have given to the selected managed host to be created.

   • Root password – Although the root password is encrypted in the file, you can copy and paste from the BMI server provisioning or reprovisioning form into the file.

   • NFS installation server – Check that the server name and path correctly point to the installation CDs.

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     Note –

     The parameters might have different names in the Kickstart and the YaST files.

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