[email protected] wrote:
Getting Kickstart setup for Z Linux guests and am wanting to keep the number ks files to a minimum and not edit them every time a hosts is built, so I noticed during a manual install the IP information gets passed over during the X Install and all you need to do is confirm it so my question is can this be passed over in some way to ks as well so it doesn't need to be specified in the file?
I am not sure that I understand the question properly, but nonetheless this might help. The ks file can be retrieved from an http server. This requires the client have an IP address. The ks file can be created by a CGI script, or similar. The CGI script has the client IP address. If this client IP address is the one to be used permanently, then Bob's your uncle. I don't know whether one can do this on Z, it wasn't possible earlier. If you can manually type in some parameter information of some kind before Linux boots, you can enter arbitrary stuff and that can get to your CGI script. This requires you IPL a boot loader that can pass information to the Linux kernel. Examples from the Intellish world include PXELinux, Syslinux, grub and lilo. I don't recall whether I needed any special magic, I set it up years ago, and it continues to work for new releases of RHEL and Fedora. -- Cheers John -- spambait [email protected] [email protected] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
