This is an anaconda addon for configuring kdump. To use, copy the com_redhat_kdump directory into /usr/share/anaconda/addons on your installation media. The syntax of the addon's kickstart section is: %addon com_redhat_kdump (--enable|--disable) --reserve-mb=("auto"|) %end Note that support for arguments on the %addon line was added in anaconda-21.23. See anaconda commit 3a512e4f9e15977f0ce2d0bbe39e841b881398f3, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065674 How to test the kdump-anaconda-addon? You can provide an updates image in the kernel boot arguments as updates=, and the contents will be added to the stage2 filesystem. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates has more details, but usually the easiest is to make it available via HTTP or FTP and provide a url to updates=. The file is a gzip-compressed cpio archive, and the files need to be put into stage2 in /usr/share/anaconda/addons, so something like this will work to create an updates.img: mkdir -p updates/usr/share/anaconda/addons cp -r com_redhat_kdump updates/usr/share/anaconda/addons/ ( cd updates; find . | cpio -oc | gzip -c9 ) > updates.img then you can upload the updates.img to some http or ftp server so the anaconda can get it by boot parameter as updates=http://some.website.com/path/to/updates.img.