Can multiple kickstart files be added to cdrom
Dag Wieers
dag at wieers.com
Mon Feb 13 07:33:31 UTC 2006
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
> Is it possible to embed more than one kickstart that will match the
> installation interface's MAC address. What I want is to use boot system
> using virtual CD (using iLO) to install multiple systems but matching
> kickstart conf file will be used with the matching MAC address.
I would look at creating special programs for syslinux (isolinux in your
case). I'm very interested to have something like this as well. With the
following features:
+ based on a config-file with different mac-addresses + configuration.
eg.:
[00:0a:0b:0c:0d:0e]
kickstart = ks-proxy.cfg
ip-address = 10.1.2.3
netmask = 255.255.255.0
gateway = 10.1.2.1
nameserver = 10.2.3.4
interface = eth1
boot-options = hda=noide panic=30
[default]
kickstart = ks-dhcp.cfg
boot-options = panic=30
+ the syslinux program would then parse this file, use the correct
section (based on any or all mac-addresses) and convert variables in
this kickstart-file by its values.
eg. ks-proxy.cfg
### Kickstart
network --bootproto=static --ip=%(ip-address)s --netmask=%(netmask)s --gateway=%(gateway)s --nameserver=%(nameser)s --device=%(interface)s
+ the syslinux program should also use (add?) the boot-options to the
kernel command line.
This would effectively allow us to create a single ISO image that would
work for all systems and only requires us to update the config-file in
case we have new hardware and create new kickstart files if we have a
different profile.
I'm currently designing a tool to do exactly this in python, but instead
of letting the bootloader take decisions, I'm letting the http-server make
decisions after a PXE boot and write the custom kickstart file on-the-fly.
Kind regards,
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ --
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