Ok. Just curious, I'm having a debate with a colleague who uses SUSE and apparently their deployment tool can do this natively. ----- Original Message ----- From: Victor Sira <victor_sira@yahoo.com> Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:27 pm Subject: Re: Interactively prompting for a piece of install data To: Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list@redhat.com> > Not aware of any other facility to do this, but can't imagine a > situation where these wouldn't be enough... > > --Victor > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "jasong@optonline.net" <jasong@optonline.net> > To: Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list@redhat.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:02:46 AM > Subject: Re: Interactively prompting for a piece of install data > > Thanks Victor. > > So does this mean that Kickstart doesn't have a built in > facility for doing this natively? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Victor Sira > Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:48 am > Subject: Re: Interactively prompting for a piece of install data > To: Discussion list about Kickstart > > > Yes, possible. Take a look at this article for an example: > > > > http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/31/solutions-from-the- > road- > > how-to-get-the-%e2%80%9creal%e2%80%9d-hostname-registered- > during- > > satellite-provisioning-or-how-to-avoid-the-dreaded- > > %e2%80%9cunknown%e2%80%9d-hostname/ > > > > That asks for the hostname, but you could ask different > > questions. You can also parse /proc/cmdline for custom > > parameters passed at boot time. > > > > --Victor > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: "jasong@optonline.net" > > To: kickstart-list@redhat.com > > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:21:20 AM > > Subject: Interactively prompting for a piece of install data > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm new to kickstart and was wondering if it was possible to > ask > > a single question, i.e. root password, during a kickstart > > install and automate anything else. If it is, how is this > > accomplished? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Looking for last minute shopping deals? > > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > > > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > </kickstart-list@redhat.com></jasong@optonline.net></kickstart-list@redhat.com></victor_sira@yahoo.com>