Hi.

I need to define a number of ks installations which obviously will be directing the installer to a relevant ks.cfg file on my cd.

The installation should be able to install single components of a server or a combination of them.

There are about 8 components and I want to avoid creation of that many ks.cfg files, instead I'd like to utilize the boot prompt so a relevant script is called by a central ks.cfg.

Is it possible to read the input given at the boot prompt?

The distribution is RHEL4.7.

Thanks.

Thanks for replying.

Sorry for not explaining myself better, but what I had in mind is the human input, not the content of the label a person inputs...

For instance, if I have the section shown below, I'd like to be able to find the input 'aaa' somewhere (switching to a shell on /dev/tty2 during installation), or even better, any input the user might give.

label aaa
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img ks=cdrom:/modularization/aaa/ks.cfg ramdisk_size=8192

Another thought:
Perhaps there's a more flexible option to get user input on boot and just boot with a default label which will call for a ks.cfg file that will use the grabbed boot prompt input and run a relevant script in the "pre" or "post" sections?

[edit]:
I found the "onerror" option of isolinux which makes the server boot
a selected label whenever a wrong label name is given, this brings me one step closer but I still need a way to catch the prompt input.

Any advice is much appreciated.

Ok, I found a solution for this one...

Using the "onerror" in isolinux.cfg and the isolinux-debug.bin instead of isolinux.bin when creating the iso file...
This way I'm able to configure it in a way that any given input boots the default label and during the installation, the string that was given, can be found in /tmp/syslog.