In this hands-on project, you create and view a kickstart file using the Kickstart Confi...

In this hands-on project, you create and view a kickstart file using the Kickstart Configurator. Then you compare it to the kickstart file automatically generated by the Fedora installation program.

1. Turn on your computer. After your Linux system has been loaded, switch to a command-line terminal (tty2) by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 and log in to the terminal using the user name of root and the password of secret.

2. At the command prompt, type yum install system-config-kickstart and press Enter. Your system locates the necessary packages stored in software repositories on the Internet.

3. When prompted to download and install these packages, type y and press Enter.

4. Switch to your graphical terminal (tty1 or tty7) by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Ctrl+Alt+F7 and log in to the GNOME desktop as user1 with the password of secret.

5. Click Applications, choose System Tools, and click Terminal to open a BASH shell terminal.

6. At the command prompt, type system-config-kickstart and press Enter to start the Kickstart Configurator. Explore the various settings within the Kickstart Configurator and make selections of your choice.

7. Click the File menu and choose Save. At the Save File screen, ensure that ks.cfg is listed as the filename, and click Save. This saves your selections to the ks.cfg file in the /home/ user1 directory.

8. Close the Kickstart Configurator and log out of the GNOME desktop.

9. Switch back to your command-line terminal (tty2) by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2.

10. At the command prompt, type less /home/user1/ks.cfg and press Enter. View the entries created in the file by the Kickstart Configurator, and type q to quit when finished.

11. At the command prompt, type less anaconda-ks.cfg and press Enter. View the entries created in the file by the Fedora installation program in Hands-On Project 2-2. What differences exist? Type q to quit when finished.

12. Type exit and press Enter to log out of your shell.