On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Alok Aggarwal<Alok.Aggarwal at sun.com> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, William D. Hathaway wrote: >> >>> Section 5.7 Invoking AI on Client Systems >>> x86 - I understand the need to avoid accidentally installing due to boot >>> order confusion issues, but will there be a way this can be totally hands >>> off if desired? The wording about this wasn't clear to me. >> >> Yes, the user interaction can be automated via, say, >> an expect script such that the install is hands off. >> Infact scriptability was one of the main considerations >> while doing the research in this area. > > I anticipated this working the same way that it does with jumpstart at the > moment - namely being able to edit the client's menu.lst file to add the > install boot argument. (That's how I make x86 jumpstart completely hands-off.) > > Even better would be to have both the install and non-install entries in the > grub menu all the time, and have a way on the server to set which one was > the default.
We considered providing this choice as part of the grub menu. It turns out that that's not very scriptable which is why we didn't want to go down that route. Alok
