On Friday 24 March 2006 06:44am, Jörn Rink wrote: > Am Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:12:09 -0500 > > hat "Dimi Paun" <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> (Dimi Paun) folgendes geschrieben: > > Hi Jeremy, > > > > Just wanted to share a few thoughts about anaconda, > > while fresh in my mind (I've managed to install FC5 > > last night). > > > > First impression: anaconda really rocks! This is a > > very solid, pleasant installer. > > Yes, but since Redhat mkkickstart i missed something which let > me take SUSE for automatic installation in our firm. > > You have no choice to get some individual input into the installation. > > What i mean: > we have to install nearly 500 computer automatically in the office of > our customers (banks). Each computer has its own, predefined name, and > we are using logical (virtuell, self generated) MAC Adresses for > these PC's. So, tell me how to get the MAC Adress into the > installation via menu? The customer has to input it. For the > suse Installation we hav solved this with dialog tricks over the > autoyast console text menu to get the input. > > And the network interface is configured AFTER the input. > > I have no idea how to implement this in an anaconda kickstart > installation. Thats my wish, a point in the installation where i can, > if i want, ask for individual settings which override the ks.cfg > settings. > > When anyone has an idea for this, i am the first who changed the > auto install from SuSE to fedora ;-) Get the kickstart file from a web server and make the file that is being pointed to a perl or PHP (or ruby or whatever you prefer) script that generates the "proper" kickstart file content as output. With that in place, you can get the MAC address from a look-up table in your app, based on the IP address of the client connecting. Of course, I'm assuming that you have such a map if you are setting the MAC addresses on all those machines. -- Lamont R. Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] GPG Key fingerprint: F98C E31A 5C4C 834A BCAB 8CB3 F980 6C97 DC0D D409
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