Sane default kickstarts that understand hard disk differences
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Jan 4 04:56:19 UTC 2007
Matt Rose wrote:
>
> On 3-Jan-07, at 3:25 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
>
>> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>> I realize this is all documented to some extent, though if anyone
>>> can share some real life working fully automatic kickstarts that
>>> ignore drive size/type would be really great.
>>
>>
>> I used to do this sort of thing some years ago, back in the time of
>> RHL 7.x. It was before ks supported include, and before someone
>> mentioned the idea of simply overwriting the ks file.
>>
>
>
> I'm kind of curious, 'cause I use much the same method as Chip does, by
> using an include? How would you overwrite the ks file, in situ, so to
> speak?
makestuff >new.ks
mv new.ks ks.cfg
It seems it does (or did) get reread. It relied on a quirk, and the
include was invented to solve the need.
As I implied, I didn't actually do this, but if you go back to the ks
archives for 2002 or so (back in the time of RHL 7.x) you should find it
mentioned.
Straus out:-) 55/2.
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John
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