I have somehting similar however rather than PHP - I just use a simple shell script as a cgi script. It takes the IP address of the calling host from the shell environment then 'cat's a template kickstart file to stdout. It pipes this though sed to replace placeholders in the kickstart with the actual IP addresses to use. I also have 2 enhancements: 1. I also check the calling IP address and can use a different template kickstart file based on which IP range it is 2. I can add options to the ks=http:/.../gimmeakick line for more tuning for example I can add '?RHver=8.0' so that the shell cgi script can deliver Rh8.0 rather than the default RH7.3 (needs a mathcing kerenl/initrd too though) Daniel. On Thursday 29 May 2003 10:07 pm, R P Herrold wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2003, Richard Black wrote: > > 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... > > <snip> > > > 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). > > It turns out that one may use PHP (which can determine > requesting IP (and if within the same subnet, requesting MAC > address as well), and generate a config file on the fly ...: > > [herrold@ftp pxelinux.cfg]$ pwd ; grep php * > /tftpboot/rhl/pxe/pxelinux.cfg > 0A-80: append ksdevice=eth0 load_ramdisk=1 > prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=16384 initrd=initrd.img network > ks=http://10.250.0.253/pub/kickstart/ks.php > 0A-8094: append ksdevice=eth0 ramdisk_size=32768 > initrd=initrd.img ks=http://10.250.0.253/pub/kickstart/ks.php > 0A-90: append ksdevice=eth0 load_ramdisk=1 > prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=16384 initrd=initrd.img network > ks=http://10.250.0.253/pub/kickstart/ks.php > [herrold@ftp pxelinux.cfg]$ > > > and at: http://10.250.0.253/pub/kickstart/ks.php sample code > looks like: > > [root@ftp kickstart]# pwd ; ls ; cat ks.php > /var/www/html/pub/kickstart > default.cfg ks.cfg ks.cfg-80-plain ks.cfg-LTSP > ks.php > done.php ks.cfg-80 ks.cfg-80-post ks-IP.php > ftp-manifest.txt ks.cfg-8094 ks.cfg-90 ks-MAC.php > <?php > // > // build a ks.cfg on the fly, based on IP > // > $FILENAME = "ks.cfg"; > $body = ""; > if (file_exists ("$FILENAME")) { > $fd = fopen ("$FILENAME", "r"); > while (!feof ($fd)) { > $buffer = fgets($fd, 4096); > $body .= $buffer; > } > fclose ($fd); > } > // > print "$body"; > print "reboot \n"; > // > $recipient = "notify@xxxxxxxxxxxx"; > $subject = "PXE install - start"; > $body = ""; > $body .= "Install starts \n"; > $body .= "----------------------------------------- \n"; > $body .= "end of file"; > // > mail ($recipient,$subject,$body) ; > // > [root@ftp kickstart]# > > > and not surprisingly done.php is read in a %post section: > > [root@ftp kickstart]# cat done.php > <?php > // > // send an EOJ notice after an install > // > $recipient = "notify@xxxxxxxxxxxx"; > $subject = "PXE install done "; > $body = ""; > $body .= "Install done \n"; > $body .= "----------------------------------------- \n"; > $FILENAME = "ks.cfg"; > if (file_exists ("$FILENAME")) { > $fd = fopen ("$FILENAME", "r"); > while (!feof ($fd)) { > $buffer = fgets($fd, 4096); > $body .= $buffer; > } > fclose ($fd); > // $null = "-placeholder- \n"; > } else { > $body .= "kickstart file missing \n"; > } > $body .= "----------------------------------------- \n"; > $body .= "end of file"; > // > mail ($recipient,$subject,$body) ; > // > header("Location: http://www.owlriver.com/";); > // > [root@ftp kickstart]# > > > with code like this: > > [root@ftp kickstart]# tail ks.cfg-90 > # for tftp install notifications > sox > libogg > libvorbis > -lokkit > -mutt > > %post > wget -O /dev/null -U "orc/9.0" http://10.250.0.253/pub/kickstart/done.php > [root@ftp kickstart]# > > ---------------------------------- > > I am getting a wierd hangup sometimes, but I think this may be > hardware related. > > -- Russ Herrold -- Yours, Daniel. -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Dan Kidger, Quadrics Ltd. daniel.kidger@xxxxxxxxxxxx One Bridewell St., Bristol, BS1 2AA, UK 0117 915 5505 ----------------------- www.quadrics.com --------------------
