God bless open source. I peeked into kickstart.py, and found that it first parses and executes the %pre section from ks.cfg, then re-reads ks.cfg, and starts from there... so all I did was overwrite it with the modified version I created, and Whammo! It works. So - If anyone wants quasi-dynamic, disk-size percentage-based partitioning, lemme know and I'll send you the script. Works just ducky. Cheers, erik. On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 11:35, Erik Williamson wrote: > Note: my reply doesn't even make sense to me. I hope it does for you > all! > > Yeah - I tried to use %include, but there was a 'chicken vs. the egg' > situation - I had to put the %include before %pre, but anaconda barfed > because the include script didn't exist yet... and I had somehow > determined that the include file was parsed at the same time that the > rest of the main kickstart config file was, so it wouldn't hve the > goodies that I generated in the %pre script... > > On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 11:03, Philip Rowlands wrote: > > On 9 Aug 2002, Erik Williamson wrote: > > > > >I've (re)written a little addition to anaconda which partitions the hard > > >disk by percentages, as opposed to set values - very handy as we have a > > >million differing machine setups here. It is run in the %pre section, > > >where it partitions the disk, and then modifies /tmp/ks.cfg. > > > > Sounds like a good reason to use %include. You could use a %pre script > > to write out a section of kickstart file to /tmp/partitions.ksinc, then > > use "%include /tmp/partitions.ksinc" in place of your partition info. > > > > Unfortunately, %include does not work (for me), at least in RH7.3 (I > > haven't tried Limbo). Redhat - any advice? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Phil > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kickstart-list mailing list > > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- > e r i k w i l l i a m s o n erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- e r i k w i l l i a m s o n erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary
