On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >I'm going to making a single cd distribution of Red Hat with a reduced >number of packages. The CD will have a kickstart file on it that will >configure all of the options except: > >networking >partitioning > > >I want the ananconda to prompt the user for the networking information I think there's a "ask all unanswered questions" option to recent kickstarts (untested). >but I also want it to prompt the user for the partitioning layout; >however, instead of having the user partition the system by hand, I want >him to be able to select from a menu > >a) partition scheme A >b) partition scheme B >c) partition scheme C > > >I know it is possible to do this by modifying the anaconda source, but I >would rater not do that. I think there is a way to do this in %pre, and >have the ks file re-generate itself with the correct partitioning >statments based on the user's input. The trend for this level of customization seems to be the use of dialog for the user interaction in %pre, then to rewrite the kickstart file or use %include in some way, e.g. "%include /tmp/ks-partition.inc" (again, untested). Cheers, Phil
