How to use access scripts from main kickstart script?

[Mike]

I have Centos 7 kickstart scripts. The main kickstart file (the one loaded by boot_command) uses several other scripts. These all need to added to the Centos minimal ISO that I am using to build my full QEmu VM.

What is the best way to make all these scripts available to the main kickstart file? I think the kickstart script is expecting to find them under /mnt/source.

I've tried using floppy_dir but then I can't mount the floppy drive before the image is built. File provisioners run after the image is built.

Thanks

[Rickard von Essen]

You can pass arguments from the boot_command to kickstart that you can read in your pre and post scripts. A good way is to pass a base url http://{{ .HTTPIP}}:{{ .HTTPPort }} and put your scripts in the http_directory. Then in your kickstart script you can just curl/wget additional scripts and execute them. For how to pass arguments to kickstart see 1).

But it might actually be more convenient to just inline everything into the kickstart cfg.

1) https://serverfault.com/questions/372609/how-do-i-pass-arguments-from-the-pxe-command-line-to-a-kickstart-pre-post-scr

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[Mike]

I completely forgot about the HTTP service - thanks.

On Thursday, 30 May 2019 07:21:16 UTC-4, Rickard von Essen wrote:

You can pass arguments from the boot_command to kickstart that you can read in your pre and post scripts. A good way is to pass a base url http://{{ .HTTPIP}}:{{ .HTTPPort }} and put your scripts in the http_directory. Then in your kickstart script you can just curl/wget additional scripts and execute them. For how to pass arguments to kickstart see 1).

But it might actually be more convenient to just inline everything into the kickstart cfg.

1) https://serverfault.com/questions/372609/how-do-i-pass-arguments-from-the-pxe-command-line-to-a-kickstart-pre-post-scr

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 11:18 PM Mike <sto...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have Centos 7 kickstart scripts. The main kickstart file (the one loaded by boot_command) uses several other scripts. These all need to added to the Centos minimal ISO that I am using to build my full QEmu VM.

What is the best way to make all these scripts available to the main kickstart file? I think the kickstart script is expecting to find them under /mnt/source.

I've tried using floppy_dir but then I can't mount the floppy drive before the image is built. File provisioners run after the image is built.

Thanks

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