On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 14:13, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:42:49AM +0900, Naoki wrote: > > I've got one idea and one problem, first the idea is I want pass > > something like this upon booting from CD : > > "linux ks=http://website/"; > > And then I want anaconda to show me the directory listing and let me > > select a kickstart file. > > The problem I have is I don't know python. I'm looking inside stage 2 > > and I'm taking a gander at "usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py" but I think > > I'm in the wrong place. > > Lucky you -- this functionality should take place in the first-stage > installer, which is written in plain C -- no python knowledge needed. Look > in the "loader2" subdirectory. > > There's also a mailing list for anaconda development specifically -- you > might want to join that. Mind you that the whole idea of kickstart is to be non-interactive when done correctly, and your idea blows that to smithereens. I think you could better use DNS to select the best ks.cfg, see man dhcpd.conf, although that would be less flexible. -- Chris Kloiber
