Interactively prompting for a piece of install data

[jasong at optonline.net]

Thanks Victor.So does this mean that Kickstart doesn't have a built in facility for doing this natively?----- Original Message -----From: Victor Sira Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:48 amSubject: Re: Interactively prompting for a piece of install dataTo: Discussion list about Kickstart > Yes, possible. Take a look at this article for an example:> > http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/31/solutions-from-the-road-> how-to-get-the-%e2%80%9creal%e2%80%9d-hostname-registered-during-> satellite-provisioning-or-how-to-avoid-the-dreaded-> %e2%80%9cunknown%e2%80%9d-hostname/> > That asks for the hostname, but you could ask different > questions. You can also parse /proc/cmdline for custom > parameters passed at boot time.> > --Victor> > ----- Original Message ----> From: "jasong at optonline.net" > To: kickstart-list at redhat.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:21:20 AM> Subject: Interactively prompting for a piece of install data> > Hi all,> > I'm new to kickstart and was wondering if it was possible to ask > a single question, i.e. root password, during a kickstart > install and automate anything else.  If it is, how is this > accomplished?> > > > > >      > ____________________________________________________________________________________Looking for last minute shopping deals?  > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.  > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
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