Re: Using variables in kickstart file

[Ed Brown <ebrown lanl gov>]

> Use python instead.  

Or perl.  You can substitute any parameter name you want from 
/proc/cmdline, in place of the string 'ip' in the example given earlier:

 ip=`cat /proc/cmdline |perl -e 'if (<> =~ /\sip=(.*?)\s/) {print $1}'`

ESXIP=`cat /proc/cmdline |perl -e 'if (<> =~ /\sESXIP=(.*?)\s/) {print 
$1}'`

-Ed