From what I understand a "kickstart" file is an automated deployment configuration file for Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS family of Linux distributions which is leveraged by the Cobbler Linux provisioning server for unattended deployment of Linux environments in IT environments. Rescuezilla is a live environment based on Ubuntu so doesn't provide a kickstart file (nor does it need any installation), but you may have success adapting an existing kickstart file. Please note, Rescuezilla doesn't yet support unattended deployments (task #106) unlike Clonezilla support for "preseeding" unattended sessions
From your question it sounds like you might manage a very large fleet of computers in an IT environment and use infrastructure like Cobbler. If so, I think you should investigate the extremely powerful web-UI tool named FOG Project. FOG Project is designed for remotely imaging fleets of computers and is able to boot hundreds of machines at once using PXE (network boot). It sounds like it might be more suited to your specific use case. FOG Project is extremely powerful, but it recommends initial installation within a virtual machine and of course needs DHCP Option 66 and 67 configured on your router for PXE boot, so the initial setup is a bit involved and definitely not recommended for newbies. Rescuezilla v2.2 (scheduled for release in May 2021) and can process images created by the FOG Project (in addition to many other formats) for maximum interoperability.
I should also mention Clonezilla itself offers a tool called DBRL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux) for remote imaging with PXE, but it may be several years until this remote imaging functionality is implemented in Rescuezilla's graphical user-interface.
I hope that helped!
Last edit: Rescuezilla 2021-04-02
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Oh, I see from your comment history your goal is to set a static IP address rather than use DHCP?
I am still investigating a persistent partition to maintain state between reboots (task #8), so currently the only way to customize Rescuezilla is to modify the source code and build a new ISO image from source. This is a pretty involved process and until I improve things it's a bit difficult because it requires using Docker (which has a steep learning curve).
Let me know how you go (or if you need further clarification / have further questions)!
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Hi Dusty,
Yes, Rescuezilla users have reported success booting using PXE (network boot). Here are two short comments that describe the process, including PXE configuration files.
From what I understand a "kickstart" file is an automated deployment configuration file for Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS family of Linux distributions which is leveraged by the Cobbler Linux provisioning server for unattended deployment of Linux environments in IT environments. Rescuezilla is a live environment based on Ubuntu so doesn't provide a kickstart file (nor does it need any installation), but you may have success adapting an existing kickstart file. Please note, Rescuezilla doesn't yet support unattended deployments (task #106) unlike Clonezilla support for "preseeding" unattended sessions
From your question it sounds like you might manage a very large fleet of computers in an IT environment and use infrastructure like Cobbler. If so, I think you should investigate the extremely powerful web-UI tool named FOG Project. FOG Project is designed for remotely imaging fleets of computers and is able to boot hundreds of machines at once using PXE (network boot). It sounds like it might be more suited to your specific use case. FOG Project is extremely powerful, but it recommends initial installation within a virtual machine and of course needs DHCP Option 66 and 67 configured on your router for PXE boot, so the initial setup is a bit involved and definitely not recommended for newbies. Rescuezilla v2.2 (scheduled for release in May 2021) and can process images created by the FOG Project (in addition to many other formats) for maximum interoperability.
I should also mention Clonezilla itself offers a tool called DBRL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux) for remote imaging with PXE, but it may be several years until this remote imaging functionality is implemented in Rescuezilla's graphical user-interface.
I hope that helped!
Last edit: Rescuezilla 2021-04-02
Oh, I see from your comment history your goal is to set a static IP address rather than use DHCP?
I am still investigating a persistent partition to maintain state between reboots (task #8), so currently the only way to customize Rescuezilla is to modify the source code and build a new ISO image from source. This is a pretty involved process and until I improve things it's a bit difficult because it requires using Docker (which has a steep learning curve).
Let me know how you go (or if you need further clarification / have further questions)!