Hacking anaconda

[Glenn Bailey <gbailey terremark com>]

Hello all,

I'm gonna be looking to modify Anaconda to allow it to fit more snugly in
the current environment I work in and had a couple of questions where to
start. I browsed through the Wiki the best I could, but couldn't really find
the best place to start. So I'll just start listing ;-)

1) In my current environment we do not track machines by MAC addresses, but rather
by chassis serial #. I'm wanting to modify Anaconda to be able to pull this serial
# via dmidecode, and then use that # as the kickstart file name. Can this be done
in the stage 2, or does it have to know what KS file to use in stage 1? In either
case, can I be pointed in the right direction for making such modifications?

1) If I roll my own Anaconda from the latest source provided can I use the same
source tree for RHEL 3, 5, and 5 as long as I create the proper stage1 boot? Or
would it be easier to just modify the existing source trees for each distro? Lookin
to do this RHEL distros only (RHEL and CentOS).

Any pointers will be greatly appreciated .. !

Glenn