Fedora Workstation Kickstart File

Bringing you a clean Fedora installation since F23.

Tested as working on Fedora 34.

Overview

Part of an overall project to adopt the "cattle" approach to my personal computing.

Assuming the distribution does its job correctly, I can use this project along with good backups in my homedir to have a consistent environment on any installed target.

Designed to:

• Deploy Fedora with a repeatable and automated method.
• Provide a single source of truth for the software I like to use.
• Encapsulate any optimisations/tricks I like to apply.

Requirements

• This README assumes installation to a device with:
  • An internet connected ethernet port.
  • At least 15GB of HDD.
  • A webserver to host this kickstart file once it is configured.
• For machines with no eth port, use livecd-iso-to-disk then add the ks file to the USB.
  • https://github.com/rhinstaller/livecd-tools/blob/master/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh

Use

• Clone and enter this repository with:
  • git clone https://github.com/sinner-/kickstart-fedora-workstation.
  • cd kickstart-fedora-workstation.
• If you're not me you will probably want to run:
  • sed -i 's/sina-laptop/YOUR_DESIRED_HOSTNAME/' workstation.ks.
    • (run this command before the next one to avoid sed mixups)
  • sed -i 's/sina/YOUR_NAME/' workstation.ks.
  • sed -i 's/^timezone/timezone Yourcountry\/Yourcity/' workstation.ks.
• Run the kickstart.py script which will ask you for the user password and FDE passphrase and then launch a HTTP server:
  • python3 kickstart.py
• Install Fedora Workstation netinst to a usb with dd if=netinst.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=1M oflag=sync status=progress.
• Boot Fedora Workstation netinst on the target install machine.
• At the boot screen, press UP to select the "install without verify" option and then TAB.
• Insert the kickstart directive into the the boot string before the quiet directive.:
  • inst.ks=http://<WEB_SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/workstation.ks
• Hit ENTER. Install will begin and complete without any further prompt.