Re: Holding configuration information

["Terry McIntyre" <terry mcintyre gmail com>]

> Mike Hubbard wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> What config information are you trying to save?
>
> I think I'd much rather solve this as a backup/restore kind of use case,
> whether that's something as simple as cp or rsync or something more complex.

I concur. If this stuff is saved into RAM, it could vanish due to a
power outage or programming error. Do you want to retain this
configuration information somewhere off-box, the better to recreate
the box whenever the disk fails?

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