On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Nick White wrote: >I was intrigued by the idea that was brought up recently about using a CGI >script to determine options. How would you run the CGI? - Via Apache (most documentation/help from Google) - Standalone [perl/nc] script dispatcher (least overhead) - Anything in between; the mechanics of launching the CGI is not the hard part :) >Would you just do an HTTP GET from the %pre section and put the output >in /tmp, then %include it? Could do that. > How would you pass parameters to the CGI (could you pass them in at > the "boot" prompt)? Yes, they would be accessible via /proc/cmdline. Don't use anything that a module might misinterpret; try "linux mykickstartmode=desktop", for example. What's much more interesting/fun is to pass as much information as possible from the KS client. You could send hardware info, current partition layout, current O/S setup, and dynamically write back a fully customized kickstart file. Cheers, Phil
