On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 18:09, Mark Heslep wrote: > Are there any plans underway add a web interface to the kickstart tool? I have not considered this before. RHN has web kickstart features for system deployment and provisioning. This is nice because the target system will then pull the installation down from RHN and do a network install. > > There are several pojects to produce dynamically generated web forms > such as Brian Long's Kickstart tools (http://kickstart-tools.sf.net/ ) > and NC State's web-kickstart > (http://linux.ncsu.edu/projects/web-kickstart/) to name just two. And I > remember a PHP form put out some time ago. However, rolling your own > ks web form effectively creates your own personal fork of > ..config-kickstart that must then be maintained and so loses the > leverage of the mainstream RH/Fedora tool. > > If nothing's planned now, any recomendation as to how best to > technically proceed? This would require some pretty heavy reworking of the s-c-kickstart code, but it is possible. I'm interested to know what benefits you feel the web interface would provide that isn't provided by the existing interface. --Brent