“If you’ve installed Red Hat’s Fedora OS, you’ve likely noticed
the Anaconda installer’s polished and friendly user interface. It’s
certainly helpful, but I still don’t want to click through it every
time I (re)build a machine. Kickstart’s automated installs give my
mousing finger a rest.“Kickstart isn’t only for large server farms. Someone building a
couple of oft-recycled machines, such as in a lab environment, can
benefit from fast, consistent, unattended OS installs.
Additionally, people who are just experimenting with Linux can rely
on Kickstart as a way to start fresh when their tinkering goes
awry…”