Ed Brown wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 17:38 -0700, Dan Trainor wrote:
I'm using something similar to this to extract the values, in %pre:
if grep -i -q "ipaddr=[a-zA-Z0-9]" /proc/cmdline
then
IPADDR=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed 's/.*ipaddr=\([^ ]*\).*/\1/'`
else
IPADDR=1.2.3.4
fi
I then can extract ${IPADDR} from most anywhere - except my ks.cfg.
I'm using something similar to this, to define network arguments:
network --device=eth0 \
--bootproto=static \
--ip=`/usr/bin/echo ${IPADDR}` \
--netmask=`/usr/bin/echo ${NMADDR}` \
--gateway=`/usr/bin/echo ${GWADDR}` \
--nameserver=`/usr/bin/echo ${NSADDR}`
Quite possibly I don't understand what you are trying to do, but if you
are providing static ip network info at the anaconda 'boot:' prompt, why
would you need to write this information into the kickstart file on the
network line?
You can provide these parameters like:
boot: linux ks=... method=... ip=... gateway=... dns=... netmask=...
and have this in your ks.cfg:
network --device=eth0 --bootproto=static
and there is no need to edit ks.cfg.
Or, if you are creating a custom syslinux.cfg, your stanzas could list
all the parameters except perhaps the ip, or ip and gateway:
syslinux.cfg:
------------
...
label mylabel
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img dns=our.dns.server netmask=255.255.255.0
ks=URL_of_ks.cfg method=URL_of_distro
at anaconda 'boot:' prompt:
boot: mylabel ip=... gateway=...
Again, no need to edit ks.cfg
hope this helps,
Ed
Hello, Ed -
What I'm wanting to do is to let the user supply boot:-time arguments
for a few settings, but if they do not specify these settings, use a
default.
I think that Chip had responded earlier with a solution, which I have
yet to try. Regardless, I'll report back.
Thanks!
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