There have been a number of threads on this list dealing with getting input from the user to generate a custom kickstart file on the fly. Looks like the Rocks Cluster project (http://www.rocksclusters.org) has done some pretty clever things by hacking Anaconda directly to insert custom screens and to generate kickstart stuff from xml. As far as I can tell it's not very well documented but maybe it would be useful for someone on this list. These slides are a good overview of the hack: http://www.rocksclusters.org/rocks-a-palooza-slides/rolls-overview.pdf Here is link to a a sample ks.cfg which has a lot of their customizations inline. It takes advantage of the %installclass kickstart directive. http://www.rocksclusters.org/ftp-site/rocks-3.0.0/rocks-dist/enterprise/2.1AW/en/os/ia64/ks.cfg I'm not associated with this project in any way. Just thought it was pretty interesting. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com