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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