Hello all, Thanks to all for you for the replies, what I really want to control is the partitioning sizes and the package selection part of kickstart, I wan to give the user the ability to choose the package and partition sizes all other kickstart features are hidden from them. Now how do I get the package list for the distribution and the hard disk specs. I would prefer to do it by shell script/dialog , but I am not restricting the options only to this if need be . Thanks in advance for all help Regards -CDC -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christian.Rohrmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:09 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Cc: Discussion list about Kickstart; kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Console based kickstart file generator Hi, I did something similar. I put tags in a template ks.cfg that I then replace dynamically with the apropriate text via a perl script. The original starting point was a standard kickstart script. The documentation for KS is actually quite good, other than a few omissions. Most important for me was to see others' KS files to get ideas, and then ofcourse to spend quality time writing and testing my own to learn what can and can't be done with KS. Cheers, Christian _________________ Christian Rohrmeier Schering AG Corporate IT - Infrastructure and Services Computer Systems and Operations System Administration - Research and Development Tel +49 30 468 15794 Fax +49 30 468 95794 Klaus Steden <klaus.steden@tho mson.net> To Sent by: Discussion list about Kickstart kickstart-list-bo <kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx> unces@xxxxxxxxxx cc Subject 30.06.2005 16:09 Re: Console based kickstart file generator Please respond to Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list@r edhat.com> > Hello Klaus, > > Can you share the same with me ? Where can I find thepackage. > > Thanks in advance for all the help > Sorry, no such luck, I put this together by hand. The approach I've taken was to inject code in between the /sbin/loader starting (the kickstart init program) and anaconda being launched - something I wouldn't advise unless you're brave and possibly foolish. Realistically, though, the kickstart.cfg is just plain text - I grabbed the docs, and a copy of a ks file I had used on another machine, and I used that as my reference point for generating things. Make one using the GUI, and start experimenting with it, would be my best advice. hth, Klaus _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
