Using variables in kickstart file

[Gabrie]

Will try all this at work tomorrow. Think I'm gonna make a VM that can
do PXE boot first, because booting a HP DL585 takes forever :-)

Again, many many thanks to all that helped !!! Realy great work !!!

Thank you
Gabrie


On 7/19/07, Shabazian, Chip <Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com> wrote:
> I don't think #EOF will work, EOF has to be the first thing on the line.
> Also, *I* would put the comments before/after writing the file, not in
> the file itself:
>
> # Now write them to file:
> cat << EOF >> /tmp/networkinfo
> network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip $ESXIP --netmask
> 255.255.255.0
> EOF
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gabrie
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:03 PM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: Using variables in kickstart file
>
> Ok... let me give it a try.
>
>
> commandline:
> boot: yadda yadda yadda ESXIP=10.0.0.20 ESXVMOTION=10.0.2.20
>
>
> Kickstart.cfg:
>
> # Regional Settings
> keyboard us
> lang en_US
> langsupport --default en_US
> timezone  America/New_York
>
> # Installatition settings
> skipx
> mouse none
> firewall --disabled
> # Unencrypted root password: password
> rootpw --iscrypted $1$5a17$In5zYe6YsCty76AycpGaf/ reboot install url
> --url http://192.168.3.150/esx/esx301/
>
> # network configuration
> %include /tmp/networkinfo
>
> # Partitioning
> clearpart --all --drives=cciss/c0d0 --initlabel part /boot --fstype ext3
> --size 250  --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
> part swap   --size 1600  --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
> part / --fstype ext3  --size 5120  --ondisk=cciss/c0d0 part /var
> --fstype ext3  --size 2048  --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
>
> %pre
> # Read ESXIP and ESXVMOTION from commandline ESXIP=`awk -F "ESXIP="
> '{print $2}' /proc/cmdline | cut -d " " -f 1` ESXVMOTION=`awk -F
> "ESXVMOTION=" '{print $2}' /proc/cmdline | cut -d " " -f 1`
>
> # Now write them to file:
> cat << EOF >> /tmp/networkinfo
>
> # Network Configurations
> network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip $ESXIP --netmask
> 255.255.255.0 #EOF
>
>
>
> Any good?
> Gabrie
>
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