Interactively prompting for a piece of install data

[Victor Sira]

Not aware of any other facility to do this, but can't imagine a situation where these wouldn't be enough...

--Victor


----- Original Message ----
From: "jasong at optonline.net" <jasong at optonline.net>
To: Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:02:46 AM
Subject: Re: Interactively prompting for a piece of install data

Thanks Victor.

So does this mean that Kickstart doesn't have a built in facility for doing this natively?

----- Original Message -----
From: Victor Sira 
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:48 am
Subject: Re: Interactively prompting for a piece of install data
To: Discussion list about Kickstart 

> Yes, possible. Take a look at this article for an example:
> 
> http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/31/solutions-from-the-road-
> how-to-get-the-%e2%80%9creal%e2%80%9d-hostname-registered-during-
> satellite-provisioning-or-how-to-avoid-the-dreaded-
> %e2%80%9cunknown%e2%80%9d-hostname/
> 
> That asks for the hostname, but you could ask different 
> questions. You can also parse /proc/cmdline for custom 
> parameters passed at boot time.
> 
> --Victor
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "jasong at optonline.net" 
> To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:21:20 AM
> Subject: Interactively prompting for a piece of install data
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to kickstart and was wondering if it was possible to ask 
> a single question, i.e. root password, during a kickstart 
> install and automate anything else.  If it is, how is this 
> accomplished?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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