Well, I figured out that one of my issues was that the --isUtc option to timezone had been replaced with --utc (which I've not yet found documented) and that it wasn't backward compatible (even though things like the "yes" argument to "zerombr" are non-fatal warnings). Hmmm. Anyway, was wondering about a few other things...For instance, on "network", can you specify this command multiple times, as in:
network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=on network --bootproto=dhcp --device=ath0 --onboot=off for a laptop with both wired and wireless interfaces? And what about adding: network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --mtu=1400 Why? Well, when I worked at Cisco we had some users that worked over VPN where the overhead for IPSEC/GRE tunneling reduce the maximum UDP data size (for TFTP, etc) to 1400 bytes. A proper client should specify that it wanted the MaxMTU option from DHCP and then set the interface appropriately, but not all do (PIXE comes to mind). And then there are static IP addresses, of course... Being able to netboot a PC and image it without having to drive 200 miles to come into the nearest corporate office would have been cool. Another thing I was thinking about was being able to perform simple editsof the contents of /etc/sysconfig files. I've written the following script to give an example of this. It has drawbacks, like not supporting subdirectories,
but that's easily fixed... The way I use it right now is: %post .../inst-helper/sysconfig.pl -b.orig 'init/GRAPHICAL=no' 'network/+NETWORKING_IPv6=no'
cat >> /etc/modprobe.conf <<__EOF__ # turn off IPv6 alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off __EOF__Does this seem like it (the functionality of the sysconfig.pl script) would be a useful extension to the parameter section of the Kickstart config file (i.e. make
it a built-in command "sysconfig" just like "xconfig" or "timezone")? Thanks, -Philip
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sysconfig.pl
Description: Perl program
