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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Interactive PXE Boot Menu Post 302591679 by ceb on Friday 20th of January 2012 10:22:43 AM
Old 01-20-2012
Interactive PXE Boot Menu
I have been asked to modify our PXE server such that there will be only one entry in the pxelinux.cfg/default file, where the same kernel and initrd.img will be used regardless of what operating system is to be installed, and the user will type in the path to the kickstart file that will be used. I have attempted to complete this task by using a modular kickstart, and asking for user input in the %pre section, which failed miserably. I have also looked into the possibility of getting user input from the PXE boot menu. Is it somehow possible to refer back to the user input when using prompt 1....label? Can this information be referenced other than by using label? Is there a better way to accomplish this?

Unfortunately, installing extra packages or tools on our pxe server is not an option.
 

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gethostip

GETHOSTIP(1)						      General Commands Manual						      GETHOSTIP(1)

NAME

       gethostip -- convert an IP address into various formats

SYNOPSIS

       gethostip [-dxnf]  [HOSTNAME|IP]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the gethostip command.

       The  gethostip utility converts the given hostname or IP address into a variety formats.  It is provided by the syslinux package to make it
       easier to calculate the appropriate names for pxelinux configuration files.  These filenames can be the complete hexadecimal representation
       for a given IP address, or a partial hexadecimal representation to match a range of IP addresses.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -d	 Output the IP address in decimal format.

       -x	 Output the IP address in hexadecimal format.

       -n	 Output the host's canonical name.

       -f	 Full output.  Outputs the IP address in all supported formats.  Same as -xdn.

SEE ALSO

       syslinux(1)

       More  details can be found in the pxelinux documentation, which can be found in /usr/share/doc/syslinux/pxelinux.doc.gz on Debian GNU/Linux
       systems.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was compiled by dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

																      GETHOSTIP(1)
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