[rhelv6-list] Manual bootstrap steps at first boot

Darren Patterson darren.patterson at stanford.edu
Thu Mar 15 23:16:06 UTC 2012


On Mar 14, 2012, at 10:02 AM, John Haxby wrote:

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> On 14 March 2012 16:51, Darren Patterson <darren.patterson at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> firstboot requires X, which we don't install on our servers.   I am trying to match cli bootstrap functionality with Debian/Ubuntu.
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> It might have an RPM dependency on X, but it doesn't need an X server.
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> There's no reason why you shouldn't have a start-up script like firstboot that does what you want, it's not at all difficult to write such a script.


To follow up on this, using python snack in an init script instead of python curses works. 
Thanks,
-darren

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