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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Interactive PXE Boot Menu Post 302591808 by ceb on Friday 20th of January 2012 04:14:31 PM
Old 01-20-2012
Ok I see what you mean, but I still do not understand how I can prompt the user for a kickstart file path, store their input in a variable, and then reference said variable when I pass the ks= kernel commandline option. I understand how the PXE menu works, but the problem is that our menu file is growing rapidly as we add distros, and I have been asked specifically to get it down to one default entry. If there is a way to reference the user's input (other than by using a label) then this can be easily accomplished. I do not think this is possible to do at this point, however.
 

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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

system-config-kickstart

SYSTEM-CONFIG-KICKSTART(8)				      Kickstart Configurator					SYSTEM-CONFIG-KICKSTART(8)

NAME

       system-config-kickstart - graphical interface for creating kickstart files

SYNOPSIS

       system-config-kickstart [KSFILE]

DESCRIPTION

       system-config-kickstart	provides a simple method of creating a kickstart file that can be used to automate the installation process on Red
       Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and derived distributions.

       If given, the program will take its initial settings from the KSFILE provided on the command line.  This allows editing of  existing  kick-
       start files.

       Currently,  this program has some serious limitations.  For example, it cannot work with LVM nor do advanced RAID and BTRFS configurations.
       These are supported by kickstart, but the graphical program does not provide a way to set them up nor manipulate them in existing kickstart
       files.

OPTIONS

       --help	 Print out program usage.

       --generate FILENAME
		 Examine the system and create a kickstart file that more or less matches, writing the output to FILENAME.

       --display DISPLAY#
		 Specify the X display to use.

EXAMPLES

       To run the program type:

       system-config-kickstart

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <http://bugzilla.redhat.com>.

AUTHORS

       Chris Lumens <clumens@redhat.com>
       Brent Fox <bfox@redhat.com>
       Tammy Fox <tfox@redhat.com>

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