kickstarting & user intervention

[Stephen Mah]

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions.

Brian Long wrote:

>Stephen,
>
>You could investigate kickstart-tools.  We use a perl-CGI to generate
>the ks.cfg, bootdisks, PXE, etc depending on what the user chooses.
>
>http://kickstart-tools.sf.net.  The kickstart-tools-web RPM includes the
>perl-CGI you would install on an Apache web server.  It's heavily
>customizable.
>
>Your end users would visit this internal web site, generate the bootdisk
>or PXE, then kickstart their machines.
>
>/Brian/
>
>On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 19:25, Stephen Mah wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm looking into a way to give users the option of providing additional 
>>input.
>>For instance, our standard kickstart file defines the partitions 
>>structure...
>>Some users want the flexibility of creating their own partition scheme, 
>>while still running our post installation scripts, customizations, etc...
>>
>>Is there a way to make Gui Disk partitioning program to run if the user 
>>chooses this option?
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>
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