customizing anaconda through kickstart

[Lance Braswell]

There have been a number of threads on this list
dealing with getting input from the user to generate a
custom kickstart file on the fly. Looks like the Rocks
Cluster project (http://www.rocksclusters.org) has
done some pretty clever things by hacking Anaconda
directly to insert custom screens and to generate
kickstart stuff from xml. As far as I can tell it's
not very well documented but maybe it would be useful
for someone on this list.

These slides are a good overview of the hack:

http://www.rocksclusters.org/rocks-a-palooza-slides/rolls-overview.pdf

Here is link to a a sample ks.cfg which has a lot of
their customizations inline. It takes advantage of the
%installclass kickstart directive.

http://www.rocksclusters.org/ftp-site/rocks-3.0.0/rocks-dist/enterprise/2.1AW/en/os/ia64/ks.cfg

I'm not associated with this project in any way. Just
thought it was pretty interesting.



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