Some methods involve having a web server that can punch out diskettes
based on choices the user makes. Well, that's not what you want, ok,
next...
A floppy would be too small because you really need to have the vmlinuz
and initrd for each OS you are going to install. The vmlinuz/initrd
must match the installation files.
A CD-Rom or PXE install is more suited to do what you are talking about.
In either case you would just have a syslinux.cfg (or similar) that
looks like this:
default rhl9
prompt 1
timeout 600
display F1.msg
F1 F1.msg
F2 F2.msg
F3 F3.msg
F4 F4.msg
F5 F5.msg
label rhl9
kernel vmlinuz-rhl9
append initrd=initrd-rhl9.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216
vga=788
label rhl80
kernel vmlinuz-rhl80
append initrd=initrd-rhl80.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216
vga=788
label rhl73
kernel vmlinuz-rhl73
append initrd=initrd-rhl73.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216
vga=788
label rhl72
kernel vmlinuz-rhl72
append initrd=initrd-rhl72.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216
vga=788
label rhl62
kernel vmlinuz-rhl62
append initrd=initrd-rhl62.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216
vga=788
# and if doing pxe installs, here's how to boot to the local hard drive
label localboot
localboot 0
Not sure how to do the ip address questioning, other than just leave
that section out of the ks.cfg (so throw an appropriately named
ks=nfs:192.168.0.1:/var/ftp/pub/kickstart/ks-rh73.cfg) on each of the
above append= lines).
So, PXE or CD-Rom installs are the way you'll need to go.
Me loves PXE as well. I have lots of info to get anyone started in pxe
or etherboot:
http://www.cpqlinux.com/whitepaper-kickstart.html
http://www.cpqlinux.com/whitepaper-pxe.html
http://www.cpqlinux.com/pxeserver.html
Sincerely,
Richard Black
Ricky Chawla wrote:
This is what we want to accomplish in kickstart. We want to setup a kickstart server for multiple linux flavors. We want to be able to put in a boot floppy and then have it ask us what kind of installation we want to do. This could be 6.2, 7.2, 7.3. Also we would also like it to ask us whether this is a static/dhcp ip address and prompt us if it is static IP for IP address, netmask and gateway.
If someone has examples on how to accomplish this, it would be great.
Thanks in advance
Ricky
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