Re: Different kickstartfiles based on selection from boot.msg

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fre, 2003-05-23 kl. 09:43 skrev John:
> On 23 May 2003, Johnny Ljunggren wrote:
> 
> > fre, 2003-05-23 kl. 02:56 skrev John:
> > 
> > > > I have twelve different kickstartfiles and would like to use different
> > > > ones based on input from the user. ie if the user presses F1 the
> > > > kickstartfile named ks-ws1.cfg will be used, or if F2 is pressed
> > > > ks-ws2.cfg will be used.
> > > > Any way to do this?
> > > 
> > > At what point do you want this?
> > > To do it at boot time, you'd need to change syslinux, pxelinux or
> > > whatever.
> > 
> > I mean when boot.msg is displayed you normally get the options of
> > looking at the rescue.msg, expert.msg etc (default Fx-keys). I have
> > changed the options to F1-Install WS1 F2-Install WS2. I don't know how
> > to change syslinux.cfg to start an install when pressing Fx-keys rather
> 
> 
> You can't do that, because the underlying program doesn't offer that
> functionality.

That's what I thought.

> Your choices are for the user to enter "WS1, "WS2" etc, or for you to
> change the program to do as you wish.

or make a bootcd for each workstation. There's only twelve.....
I don't have time to change the program right now, so I think I'll go
for the option where the user has to type ws1 etc. Making twelve
bootcd's seems a bit overkill.....

As a sidenote; do you know if there are limits on how long
syslinux.cfg/boot.msg can be?

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