[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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