On 30/08/12 05:43, Matt Bryant wrote:
All,
I was wondring if someone could point me in the right direction Is it
possible to update a vaiable in kickstart file give user input in a %pre
script. Basically i have a varibale buildType and whilst I can override
the default value of the profile using ksmeta input when adding a system
to cobbler would like to also be able to override given user input from
%pre script.
Have tried just about everything i can think of including creating a
file ks.settings which held the variations
#set global $buildType = "value"
#set global buildType ="value"
#set buildType = "value"
#set $buildType = "value"
then doing a #include but that doesnt seem to work ...
Is there in fact a way this can be done ??
No.
At least not in precisely this manner.
Cheetah's job is over once the kickstart (with all its %pre and %post
scripts) has been handed off to the installing system, so templating
instructions you create in
You may be able to do with with a boot parameter. Possibly. See below.
I have done this in kickstart scripts themselves, but mostly written in
bash, parsing /proc/cmdline. This can get complex very quickly depending
on how many options you support.
Thinking about it, it would be really nice if there was a simple way to
do that via cobbler - appending kernel boot parameters to ksmeta or
similar. Or does this already happen?
I'd be surprised. It's probably very difficult to do, I don't imagine
that cobbler sees anything but the HTTP request for a kickstart based on
system/profile etc.
How many build types are there?
would it make more sense to use subprofiles per build type, then provide
them in the PXE (or ISO) menu?
Regards,
Stuart
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