Interactively prompting for a piece of install data

[jasong at optonline.net]

Ok.  Just curious, I'm having a debate with a colleague who uses SUSE and apparently their deployment tool can do this natively.----- Original Message -----From: Victor Sira Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:27 pmSubject: Re: Interactively prompting for a piece of install dataTo: Discussion list about Kickstart > 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" > To: Discussion list about Kickstart > 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?> > > > > > > > > > > >      > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Looking for last minute shopping deals?  > > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.  > > > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > > > > >      > ____________________________________________________________________________________Never miss a thing.  Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs> 
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