Sane default kickstarts that understand hard disk differences

[John Summerfield]

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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