On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Is it possible to embed more than one kickstart that will match the > installation interface's MAC address. What I want is to use boot system > using virtual CD (using iLO) to install multiple systems but matching > kickstart conf file will be used with the matching MAC address. I would look at creating special programs for syslinux (isolinux in your case). I'm very interested to have something like this as well. With the following features: + based on a config-file with different mac-addresses + configuration. eg.: [00:0a:0b:0c:0d:0e] kickstart = ks-proxy.cfg ip-address = 10.1.2.3 netmask = 255.255.255.0 gateway = 10.1.2.1 nameserver = 10.2.3.4 interface = eth1 boot-options = hda=noide panic=30 [default] kickstart = ks-dhcp.cfg boot-options = panic=30 + the syslinux program would then parse this file, use the correct section (based on any or all mac-addresses) and convert variables in this kickstart-file by its values. eg. ks-proxy.cfg ### Kickstart network --bootproto=static --ip=%(ip-address)s --netmask=%(netmask)s --gateway=%(gateway)s --nameserver=%(nameser)s --device=%(interface)s + the syslinux program should also use (add?) the boot-options to the kernel command line. This would effectively allow us to create a single ISO image that would work for all systems and only requires us to update the config-file in case we have new hardware and create new kickstart files if we have a different profile. I'm currently designing a tool to do exactly this in python, but instead of letting the bootloader take decisions, I'm letting the http-server make decisions after a PXE boot and write the custom kickstart file on-the-fly. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
