# Slow kickstart RL9

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/slow-kickstart-rl9/10038>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [May 25, 2023, 1:59am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/slow-kickstart-rl9/10038 "2023-05-25T01:59:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sweh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/sweh/32/1287_2.png) [@sweh](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/sweh)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2023, 1:59am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/slow-kickstart-rl9/10038/1 "2023-05-25T01:59:46Z")

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I have a kickstart config that works… but it’s slow.

For example we get this…

```auto
[12.569744] dracut-initqueue[1257]: % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
[12.574018] dracut-initqueue[1257]: Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 740M 100 740M 0 0 2414k 0 0:05:13 0:05:13 --:--:-- 2824k 

```

and there it seems to hang for about 5 minutes 'cos the next output is

```auto
[335.329854] loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 1516120

```

There’s then another long delay at

```auto
.Checking storage configuration...
..
................................................................................
................................................................................
....................

```

Eventually it works!

But it’s slow.

The command (ultimately, after wrappers) that’s used to build is (according to the `ps` listing) on a Rocky8 server:

```auto
usr/libexec/platform-python /usr/bin/virt-install --noreboot -n test92 -r 3073 --vcpus=1 --os-variant=rhel7.0 --accelerate -v --network=bridge=br-lan,target=v-test92 --disk path=/dev/Raid68/vm.test92 -l https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/BaseOS/x86_64/kickstart/ --nographics -x inst.ks=http://10.0.0.137/CentOS/kickstart/rocky9.cfg ksdevice=ens2 ip=dhcp console=ttyS0,9600

```

My kickstart file is simple:

```auto
text
url --url https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/BaseOS/x86_64/os
repo --name=AppStream --mirrorlist https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?repo=AppStream-9&arch=x86_64

poweroff

lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us

network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --ipv6 auto

rootpw --iscrypted $6$yeahyeahyeah
firewall --disabled
selinux --disabled

timezone --utc America/New_York

zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --fstype=ext4 --asprimary --size=1024
part swap --asprimary --size=1024
part / --fstype=ext4 --asprimary --grow --size=1

%packages
@^minimal-environment
wget
ksh
dos2unix
logwatch
tar
postfix
bind-utils
bc
-iw*-firmware
%end

%addon com_redhat_kdump --disable --reserve-mb='auto'
%end

```

Am I doing something stupid?

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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:13am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/slow-kickstart-rl9/10038/2 "2023-08-25T03:13:22Z")

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Closed on August 25, 2023, 3:13am UTC