[CentOS] text installer used in Linux?

Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com
Thu Aug 9 18:06:50 UTC 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Daniel de Kok
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 1:46 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] text installer used in Linux?
> 
> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 10:34 -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> > I'd like to create one upon first time boot for a 
> CentOS-based virtual
> > application I'm making.  So, after someone boots up, I'd 
> like to have
> > a little GUI thing ask them questions and then put those 
> variables in
> > a file (or maybe use something like sed to edit other network config
> > files).
> 
> Seems like you are referring to something like "firstboot" (which is
> what will show up on the first CentOS boot)?

My God it's like deja-vu:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Rogelio Bastardo
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 6:02 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] startup config scripts for CentOS
> 
> On CentOS-based VM appliance I'm building, I would like to 
> create a script that runs upon login that asks the user a 
> series of questions that does (among other things) ask them 
> to input their networking information (IP, mask, gate, DNS, etc). 
>  
> I'm hoping you guys might point me in the right direction. 
> Here are some of the specific things I'm looking to 
> accomplish with such a script.
>  
> (1) Where might I look to for creating these types of scripts 
> (e.g. I'm assuming Bash is the way to go here?)
> (2) Are there any templates out there that I might use as a 
> starting place?
> (3) Once I write something, where/how do I call it in /etc/rc.d/
> (4) And once it starts, what is the best way to make sure 
> that it doesn't run again upon the second (and subsequent) reboots?
>  
> Ideally, someone could show me a model of something like this 
> that's already done, and I could just mod that.  Otherwise, 
> I'll grind through something manually, if I so have to....

Kinda like the 'firstboot' app that runs the first time the machine
is installed after the reboot and doesn't run again?

-Ross

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