The minimal kickstart file
From WBITT's Cooker!
(The root password is "redhat")
# cat /var/www/html/minimal.ks install text lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us key --skip url --url http://192.168.122.1/CentOS-5.4-x86_64/ network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname minivm rootpw --iscrypted $1$VQPyk3Ev$JePfY50WaA.aBhKT3xsBq. firewall --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 selinux --disabled timezone Asia/Riyadh zerombr bootloader --location=mbr --append="" clearpart --all --initlabel # I prefer you create a minimal 3GB disk for the minimal install. part / --fstype=ext3 --size=200 --grow part swap --fstype=swap --size=256 reboot %packages @core wget yum %post chkconfig --level 35 sendmail off chkconfig --level 35 cups off rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-* cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/centos-local.repo << YUMEOF [centos-local] name=CentOS-Local $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://192.168.122.1/CentOS-5.4-x86_64/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch YUMEOF