Re: anaconda & creating new kickstart options

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part --badblocks is now part of Anaconda in RHL 7.2.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/custom-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html

Maybe you can look at the new source and figure out what
went wrong.

Sincerely,
Tammy

On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:41:00PM -0700, Claude Johnson wrote:
> Being new to Python, I have a quick question about how to
> do this. Specifically, I am attempting to create a --badblock
> option for the part command. However, our previous 2 attempt
> have failed.
> 
> Right, now we do this:
> 
> 	    elif str == "--badblock":
> 		fstab.setBadBlockCheck(1)
> 
> This is in kickstart.py, around lines 600-630 (if looking
> at the /usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py installed by anaconda-7.1-5
> on RH 7.1).
> 
> When anaconda tries to execute this dring a kickstart, we
> get an AttributeError, which I can't find documented anywhere
> on python.org, but I'd love to make this section of code work
> more like the other elif statements by setting an appropriate
> variable, which is tested in another class and the proper 
> setBadBlockCheck call is then made from there. But this code 
> is so densely OO that I can't find the exact section of fstab.py
> (presumably) where this is handled.
> 
> Can anyone please provide some guidance/documentation/advice
> on how to handle this?
> 
> Thanks in advance! Peace!
> 
> Claude Johnson
> Network Scientist
> Avamar Technologies
> 949.743.5145 Vox
> 949.743.5190 Fax
> www.avamar.com
> 
> 
> 
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