Listing 2. Kickstart Configuration: ks.cfg

# Kickstart Configuration for MINIMAL CENTOS
install
text
reboot

url --url http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.3/os/i386/
lang en_US.UTF-8
langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us

skipx
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp

# The password is "password"
rootpw --iscrypted $1$h5ebo1pm$OHL3De9oalNzqIG1BUyJp0
firewall --disabled
selinux --permissive
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
timezone America/New_York

bootloader --location=mbr
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100
part pv.2 --size=0 --grow
volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2
logvol /    --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 \
            --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 \
            --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=256
%packages --nobase
coreutils
yum
rpm
e2fsprogs
lvm2
grub
sysstat
ntp
openssh-server
openssh-clients
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