#Kickstart Support
 
 Photon supports kickstart for unattended installations, the kickstart config file can reside in either the CD attached to the host or served through an http server.
 
 ##Kickstart capabilities
 
 Photon supports the following configurations:
 * Setting hostname
 * Setting password
 * Setting disk to install
 * Choose Photon flavor to install (minimal or full)
 * Apply post installation script
 * Add public keys, this will allow root ssh login.
 
 Here is a sample configuration file:
 
 ```
 {
     "hostname": "<hostname>",
     "password": 
         {
             "crypted": <true|false>,
             "text": "<password whether it's plain text or encrypted>"
         },
     "disk": "/dev/sda",
     "type": "minimal",
     "postinstall": [
                     "#!/bin/sh",
                     "echo \"Hello World\" > /etc/postinstall"
                    ],
     "public_key": "<public_key>"
 }
 ```
 
 ##Unattended installation though kickstart
 To have unattended installation, you have to pass `ks=<config_file>` parameter to the kernel command. The config file should be either:
 * on the iso `ks=cdrom:\<config_file_path>`,
 * or served over http server `ks=http://<server>/<config_file_path>`
 
 ##Building an iso with your kickstart config file
 Given a recent build photon.iso
 ```
 # mount the photon.iso
 mkdir /tmp/photon-iso
 sudo mount photon.iso /tmp/photon-iso
 
 #copy the content of the iso to a writable folder
 mkdir /tmp/photon-ks-iso
 cp -r /tmp/photon-iso/* /tmp/photon-ks-iso/
 
 pushd /tmp/photon-ks-iso/
 
 # write your ks config file
 cp isolinux/sample_ks.cfg isolinux/my_ks.cfg
 vim isolinux/my_ks.cfg
 
 # add new item in the installation menu by modyfing isolinux/menu.cfg
 cat >> isolinux/menu.cfg << EOF
 label my_unattended
 	menu label ^My Unattended Install
 	kernel vmlinuz
 	append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 ks=cdrom:/isolinux/my_ks.cfg loglevel=3
 EOF
 
 # rebuild the iso
 mkisofs -R -l -L -D -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
 		-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -V "PHOTON_$(date +%Y%m%d)" \
 		. > <new_iso_path>.iso
 
 popd
 ```