We know it's possible to retrieve the kickstart file from a CGI script (ks=http://host/kickstart.cgi) but this is rather limited as you can't know anything about the host requesting the file other than perhaps it's Ethernet address or its IP if your DHCP server is configured a certain way. Has anyone tried hacking things to pass some more interesting system info in the URL as CGI parameters? I've been trying to figure things out but I'm getting bogged down in the details. This has to be done in the "loader" program which is run out of the initrd; the source from that is in the anaconda SRPM. urlinstall.c looks to be the best place to hook this, just after the call to getHostandPath. /proc is mounted at this point (by init, before loader was called) so it should be possible to pick out things like: installed memory processor IDE disk models or capacity installed PCI cards attached SCSI devices You could also pull out the hardware address with SIOCGIFHWADDR. Then you just pass a massive URL. Might this be feasible? Or is it more reasonable to try do fancy things like this might allow in the kickstart file's %pre section? - J<
