Anaconda (kickstart handling) idea.

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:42:49AM +0900, Naoki wrote:
>    I've got one idea and one problem, first the idea is I want pass 
> something like this upon booting from CD :
> "linux ks=http://website/" 
> And then I want anaconda to show me the directory listing and let me 
> select a kickstart file.
> The problem I have is I don't know python. I'm looking inside stage 2 
> and I'm taking a gander at "usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py" but I think 
> I'm in the wrong place. 

Lucky you -- this functionality should take place in the first-stage
installer, which is written in plain C -- no python knowledge needed. Look
in the "loader2" subdirectory. 

There's also a mailing list for anaconda development specifically -- you
might want to join that.


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