On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:56:57PM -0500, Sean Dague wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:12:28AM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:32:32PM -0500, Sean Dague wrote: > > > If you add local.cfg support for it it will work on /proc/cmdline as well. > > > The items are merged during install (I actually traced this once). > > > > hrm? are you saying there is some support for passing options via > > /proc/cmdline support already? > > Yep, in the version I have on my machine (is old because I don't have CVS > write access any more) there is the following in > initrd_source/skel/etc/init.d/rcS
awesome - i remember you talking about this, but i must've been sleeping (or in some other non-thinking state) when you actually committed it. what does this mean for you users? well, you can pass network configuration information via the bootloader, which means you can store your configuration on your autoinstallcd, or pass it over the network without having to use funky dhcp options (/me looks over at the windows dhcp server people). > > I used this for iSeries support on network boot to configure the machine, as > there isn't a concept of local media and ip addrs must be configured > statically. yes, that sounds familiar now. > The effect is that it just merges everything from local.cfg and > /proc/cmdline into the variables file. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
