Howto: Pimp your kickstart, Part one
In Fedora and Red Hat/CentOS unattended installations are done via kickstart. It is also the tool of your choice if you want to set up several systems in the exact same way. With some simple tricks it can become even more useful.
The kickstart documentation is very detailed and covers the most important install options and flags. However, it is not really flexible - you can create one kickstart file for several servers, but as soon as some details in the setup need to be changed most people create another kickstart file containing that changes.
This makes it harder to maintain the kickstart files and can easily be avoided.
Parameters via command line arguments
Kickstart is usually launched via the boot command line with a string like linux ks=nfs:/myserver.com/ks.cfg. And the boot command line string can be accessed later on via /proc/cmdline - which you can now process further.
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