Re: Floppy Linuxes, Kickstart

From: m.bizzarri@icube.it
Date: 09/25/01 

Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:20:28 +0200 (CEST)
From: m.bizzarri@icube.it
To: Systems Administrator <sysadmin@sunet.com.au>
Subject: Re: Floppy Linuxes, Kickstart
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0109250917030.11067-100000@woki.icube.it>

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On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Systems Administrator wrote:

> I've read the kickstart documentation (comes with Redhat, maybe others),
> and it mostly looks good, but I want to be able to configure machines mostly
> the same with just a few options different. I'd like to use kickstart, but
> have it still ask me for a few key pieces of information (eg. network
> configs, partition table, etc), preferably with me supplying the defaults.
> I'm found that some of this can be overcome by putting "netconfig" in the
> %pre section, but I haven't found any good solution for partition tables or
> the root password (which I want different on the different machines). Does
> anyone know of any way to do this, either through one of the kickstart
> options, or through programs to run in the %pre section?
>

As for what concerns the root password, if you omit to include the rootpw
parameter in the ks.cfg file, the system will ask it you once it reaches
the point where it is needed. I'm not sure for the other parameters, but I
suspect you could check by removing one or the other and see what happens.

Also, if you need access to more configuration parameters (apart from the
partition parameters) you could try including linuxconf (get the latest
from solucorp)

Bye
Marco

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