Sane default kickstarts that understand hard disk differences

[Michael DeHaan]

I missed Chip's reply, I withdraw my second question.    Thanks!

Michael DeHaan wrote:

> John Summerfield wrote:
>> Matt Rose wrote:
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>>> On 3-Jan-07, at 3:25 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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?
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>> makestuff >new.ks
>> mv new.ks ks.cfg
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>> It seems it does (or did) get reread. It relied on a quirk, and the 
>> include was invented to solve the need.
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>> 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.
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>> Straus out:-) 55/2.
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> Hmm, where do you call the script that generates the proper file to 
> include?  It's too early to execute %pre, right?
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> --Michael
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