Specifying values dynamically using pre section

[Philip Rowlands]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Ajitabh Pandey wrote:

> I have all the RPMS on an HTTP server and using the following line I 
> start my kickstart. Somce servers are 32-bit and some are 64-bit.
>
> url --url http://debian-management-server/rhel/rhel4/amd-64/
>
> At present I have to manually change the above URL in my  base
> kickstart file if I have to install on a 32-bit machine. Like, I use
>
> url --url http://debian-management-server/rhel/rhel4/i386/
>
> I am sure there is a dynamic way of specifying such differences in the 
> form of variables in the pre section of the kickstart. If yes, can 
> someone give some examples. This will also help me in setting up the 
> hostname, ip-address and so on dynamically.

Where does your kickstart file live? You could use %pre, but another 
approach would be to generate the file dynamically with a CGI script, 
served via HTTP.

I don't have any example for this, sorry.


Cheers,
Phil