RE: Selecting NFS home via %pre section

["Coe, Colin C." <Colin Coe woodside com au>]

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Hi all

 

Still struggling with this...  Can I pass anaconda the NFS install path from PXELINUX instead of within the kickstart config file?  My target platforms are EL3 and EL4.

 

Also, I've been reading that anaconda can be updated by putting Python modules in ./RHupdates/ directory.  Where do I find these Python modules?

 

Thanks

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Frozen River
Sent: Tuesday, 6 June 2006 6:50 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: Selecting NFS home via %pre section

I think anaconda is not involved at the stage of selection install method its done in the loader if I'm not totally wrong. The loader is actually parsing the kickstart config file (that how I discovered that it doesn't stop parsing when it hits "%installclass" as it should. Hence you can't do a pre thingy to set install type.... since it needs to be present much earlier

 

Cheers The Frozen one....

 

 

On 6/5/06, Coe, Colin C. <Colin Coe woodside com au> wrote:

Hi all

I want to select a different NFS install path depending on options
passed through PXELINUX.  Something like:

pxelinux.cfg
------------
label el3_lws_safe
       kernel el3u5_x86_64/vmlinuz
       append ksdevice=eth0
ks=nfs:a.b.c.d:/export/install/rhel_x86_64_testing.cfg load_ramdisk=1
initrd=el3u5_x86_64/initrd.img
       ipappend 1


ks.cfg
------

lang en_US
langsupport en_US
keyboard us
mouse genericwheelps/2
timezone --utc Australia/Perth
rootpw --iscrypted <snip>
reboot
install
%include /tmp/nfs.cfg
bootloader --location=mbr

%pre

#!/bin/sh -x

for I in `cat /proc/cmdline`; do
  echo $I | grep -q initrd && P=`dirname \`echo $I | cut -d= -f2\``
Done

echo "nfs --server= a.b.c.d --dir=/export/install/${P}" > /tmp/nfs.cfg

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However, when I do this, anaconda asks for the install type (CDROM,
harddisk, ftp, nfs, etc) and refuses to use NFS.

Is this possible?  Is anyone else doing anything similar?

Thanks

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