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Mark Stodola wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> Mark Stodola wrote:
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> I know most of you use nfs or http for kickstart, but I'm trying to
>>> do a CD based one. Basically, I have a backup cd I make of certain
>>> software and system configuration. I'd like to make this CD bootable
>>> with a somewhat dynamic kickstart.
>>>
>>> I've got a bootable CD working, the problem comes in when I try to
>>> work with any other files on the CD in conjunction with ks.cfg.
>>> I've found that the %pre doesn't get parsed/evaluated until the
>>> actual SL DVD is inserted and mounted. Proven by:
>>
>> You mastered your own CD images?
>>
>> The details on how to this properly depend on the release: Tony Nugent
>> had the 'net's best guide up to RHL 7.3, and if it still exists, would
>> apply, with minor adaptations up to RHEL 4; after that, Anaconda
>> switched to using YUM and then the rulebook got chucked out the window.
>>
>> Your disk-swapping suggests to me you're using EL4 or earlier, and
>> that you've mastered it badly. Creating a DVD would not have the
>> problem (though it might seek lots).
> I've mastered my own CDs, but probably not what you have in mind. What
> I do is install SL 4.1 on a system, put some of our software on it, and
> then once it is all working, generate a configuration/backup CD for the
> machine. I'm trying to use the boot.iso povided in the images directory
> of the SL DVD. This lets me use the stock SL DVD, along with the
> configuration CD I'm making. I have the CD booting and pointed to the
> correct kickstart file just fine. The problem is that the kickstart
> isn't parsed until after the SL DVD is requested, so I can't use %pre to
> gather some information from the configuration CD that I booted from. I
> want to get some partitioning information and such from it.
>
> I'm wondering if there is some known way to prompt the user to swap in
> the configuration CD while the %pre is being processed or perhaps a way
> to get anaconda to run the kickstart on the configuration CD (perhaps by
> faking the .discinfo) and prompt for the DVD once it notices the
> packages aren't on the current media. I'm not opposed to duplicating
> more of the installer on the configuration CD, as there is plenty of
> room for it. I just thought the boot.iso was a good place to start, as
> the documentation covers using a kickstart with this method, just not
> anything else.
What I said.
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John
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