Kickstart file for a minimal CentOS VM

ks.cfg

#
# Kickstart file for minimal CentOS VM
# http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart
# 
# to use, pass ks=http://server/ks.cfg to kernel
#

#version=RHEL6
install
text
cdrom
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
rootpw  --plaintext password
firewall --service=ssh
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 --enablefingerprint
selinux --enforcing
network --device eth0 --onboot yes --bootproto dhcp
timezone Asia/Singapore
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="vga=773"
reboot

# assumes an 4GB or larger drive
clearpart --all --drives=sda
part swap --asprimary --size=1024
part / --fstype=ext4 --asprimary --size=2048

repo --name="CentOS"  --baseurl=file:///mnt/source --cost=100

%packages --nobase
@core
@server-policy

# exclude these
-*-firmware

# vim
vim-enhanced
vim-minimal

# for convenient ACPI shutdown
acpid

# network utils
wget
curl
openssh-clients

# utils
zip
unzip
screen

%end