Holding configuration information

[Shabazian, Chip]

You can write to a ramdisk in %pre and access it in %post, but you have
to remember to unmount it in %pre or it won't be available.

 

It may be a two step process, but if the box is up, you can log on, get
you config information backed up and copied to another server, then
simply wget that config information in the %post.  I would probably do
this at least the first few times, just to make sure I had a good backup
of everything I needed and no more.

 

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From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hubbard
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 7:39 AM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: Holding configuration information

 

Hello -

 

I am very new at this kick-start stuff.  

I need to build a kickstart CD that completely repartitions the hard
drive and yet is able to hold on to configuration information to lay it
back down after the installation.  

I have been reading and trying different things, but I can't seem to
figure this out.  My thought was to write things, perhaps, to a ramdisk
during %pre and then access it in %post, but I'm not getting anywhere
with that.

Could someone please direct me to the proper documentation for this, or
help me correct my entire line of thinking about what I want to do?  I
think I'm deep down in some rat-hole or am just missing something
obvious.

 

Thanks

Michael Hubbard

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