anyway, to continue on the previous posts... somehow i fail to see why you
would want to work this way...
maybe you want to couple MAC-address to computername or other
computer-specific things that should be set?
you can do all of this with the csv or mysql things...
i think i've seen some posts around here about choosing an unattend.txt file
based on information from csv or mysql
Michael
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Michael De Groote <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i thought the boot-time parameters are some sort of environment variables,
> so if you want them to be used inside your perl script, you should use
> something like
>
> $z_install = $ENV{'z_install'};
>
> or take a look at http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/lib/Env.html
> and try to include that perl lib in your server-side install lib dir...
>
> michael
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:21 PM, kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Where are you specifying z_install at? As far as I can tell and I also
>> have a hard time with Perl, is that config.pl is only looking at
>> unattend.csv or a mysql DB if you set it up for that, but by default it's
>> reading from unattend.csv.
>>
>> I think that's what you might want to look at.
>>
>> kevin
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Jeremy Fein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks kevin, that helped a LOT.
>>>
>>> I have the z_install parameter set on my linux boot disk. I've written
>>> this code for the config.pl:
>>>
>>> my $installtype = $u->{'_meta'}->{'z_install'};
>>> if ($installtype eq 'A') {
>>> $u->read (dos_to_host ('z:\\site\\unattend_A.txt'));
>>> }
>>> elsif ($installtype eq 'B') { $u->read (dos_to_host
>>> ('z:\\site\\unattend_B.txt'));
>>> }
>>>
>>> Obviously this doesn't work. The installtype is never set anywhere in the
>>> meta section, and I get the following error when I run the boot disk:
>>>
>>> Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /z/site/config.pl line 5
>>>
>>> How can I set the z_install value to be set to the value on the boot
>>> disk, just as the z_user, z_path, and z_pass values are initialized?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
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