Using variables in kickstart file

[Aaron Lippold]

Hi,

Checkout cobbler at : http://cobbler.et.redhat.com.

It has ks templating.

Using cobbler you could do exactly what you need very quickly.

Aaron

On 7/18/07, Gabrie <thegabeman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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