[Read Isolinux Label in Kickstart File]

[Alan McKay]

You should be able to do this.  In my kickstart files I use a lot of
prompting and asking questions, and taking actions accordingly.  Even
with regards to disk partitioning.  For example :


whichdiskprompt()
{
	#
	# which disk to format and install on
	# eventually need option for /data
	#
	echo ""
	echo "Here are the disks you have to choose from ..."
	fdisk -l 2>/dev/null | grep Disk | grep "/dev/sd[abcd]"
	DISKS=`fdisk -l 2>/dev/null | grep Disk | grep "/dev/sd[abcd]" | awk
'{print $2}' | awk -F/ '{print $3}' | sed s/://`
	SAVEPS3=$PS3
	PS3="Which disk to format? "
	MYDISK=
	select MYDISK in $DISKS
	do
		[ "$MYDISK" != "" ]	&& break
	done
	PS3=$SAVEPS3
	echo "You chose [$MYDISK]"
	MYDISKSIZE=`fdisk -l 2>/dev/null | grep Disk | grep "/dev/$MYDISK" |
awk '{print $3}' | awk -F. '{print $1}'`
	export MYDISK
	export MYDISKSIZE
}

I also work with NFS filesystems in my kickstart, so you could store
your different formatting options on NFS, have your script look in a
certain location to see what options are available there, and then
prompt the user accordingly.

I even have my options selected in %pre saved to the NFS drive so they
can be read back in in %post and used there.bb

Here is %pre part - note NFS server is 192.168.0.9


#
# now lets try to copy some info over to an NFS drive
# to save it for %post
#
mkdir -p /mnt/ks
chmod 0777 /mnt /mnt/ks
mount 192.168.0.9:/data/ks /mnt/ks -w
mkdir -p /mnt/ks/kstmp
MYMAC=`ifconfig | grep HWaddr | head -1 | awk '{print $5}'`
#
# OK, save out the vars we want for %post
echo "MYMAC=$MYMAC" > /mnt/ks/kstmp/$MYMAC.vars
echo "MYSYSTYPE=$MYSYSTYPE"	>> /mnt/ks/kstmp/$MYMAC.vars
echo "MYDISK=$MYDISK"		>> /mnt/ks/kstmp/$MYMAC.vars
echo "MYDISKSIZE=$MYDISKSIZE"	>> /mnt/ks/kstmp/$MYMAC.vars
echo "MYOWNVAR=$MYOWNVAR"	>> /mnt/ks/kstmp/$MYMAC.vars
echo "MYSWAPSIZE=$MYSWAPSIZE"	>> /mnt/ks/kstmp/$MYMAC.vars
echo "MYROOTSIZE=$MYROOTSIZE"	>> /mnt/ks/kstmp/$MYMAC.vars
echo "MINROOTSIZE=$MINROOTSIZE"	>> /mnt/ks/kstmp/$MYMAC.vars
echo ""
cat /mnt/ks/kstmp/$MYMAC.vars
echo ""
umount /mnt/ks

and here is %post part


MYMAC=`ifconfig | grep HWaddr | head -1 | awk '{print $5}'`
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.orig
echo "192.168.0.9:/data/ks /mnt/ks              nfs
rsize=32768,wsize=32768,timeo=14,intr"  >> /etc/fstab
mkdir -p /mnt/ks
chmod 0777 /mnt /mnt/ks
/etc/init.d/netfs start
mount /mnt/ks
cp /mnt/ks/kstmp/$MYMAC.vars /root
umount /mnt/ks
mv -f /etc/fstab.orig /etc/fstab
while read line
do
	eval $line
done < /root/$MYMAC.vars



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