Using variables in kickstart file
Gabrie
thegabeman at gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 09:55:02 UTC 2007
Hi
I'm going to install about 20 servers, which will be identical apart
from hostname and IP address. To make changes in all ks files easier,
I would like to start using one central batch file, that is being
called from the ks.cfg file. Therefore I would like to use 2 variables
containing IP and hostname.
Ideally it would be something like this:
### Begin ks020.cfg
VAR-IP = 10.0.0.20
VAR-HOST = vmesx020.mydomain.com
<snip>
network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip $VAR-IP --netmask
255.255.255.0 -gateway 10.0.0.254 --hostname $VAR-HOST
<snip>
%post
# download central script
lwp-download http://10.0.0.1/scripts/central.cfg /tmp/central.cfg
perl /tmp/central.cfg $VAR-IP $VAR-HOST
### End ks020.cfg
In the central.cfg I would then be able to read the VAR-IP and
VAR-HOST and use it for other configuration stuff.
Who can tell me how to use variables in this way? I have the feeling
there also is a difference between a variable in the first section
(network section) and the post section????
Gabrie
More information about the Kickstart-list
mailing list