diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/esxi7/profiles/hypervisor/kickstart b/confluent_osdeploy/esxi7/profiles/hypervisor/kickstart
index 91823657..69b2dcfd 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/esxi7/profiles/hypervisor/kickstart
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/esxi7/profiles/hypervisor/kickstart
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 accepteula
 clearpart --firstdisk --overwritevmfs
 install --firstdisk --overwritevmfs
+%include /tmp/ksnet
+%include /tmp/rootpw
 reboot
diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/esxi7/profiles/hypervisor/scripts/modinstall b/confluent_osdeploy/esxi7/profiles/hypervisor/scripts/modinstall
index 45c2a954..c3961abf 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/esxi7/profiles/hypervisor/scripts/modinstall
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/esxi7/profiles/hypervisor/scripts/modinstall
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 /opt/confluent/bin/apiclient /confluent-public/os/$profile/scripts/makeksnet >> /tmp/makeksnet
 chmod +x /tmp/makeksnet
-/tmp/makeksnet >> /etc/confluent/ks.cfg
+/tmp/makeksnet > /tmp/ksent
 rootpw=$(grep ^rootpassword: /etc/confluent/confluent.deploycfg|sed -e 's/^rootpassword: //')
-echo rootpw --iscrypted $rootpw >> /etc/confluent/ks.cfg
+echo rootpw --iscrypted $rootpw > /tmp/rootpw
 export BOOT_CMDLINE=ks=/etc/confluent/ks.cfg