[Server-devel] Firstboot modules

[John Watlington]

On Aug 26, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> StPepper,
> 
> forget about anaconda :-)  I want to _reduce_ as much as reasonable
> what we do in anaconda/kickstart.
> 
> Let's focus on this:
> 
> - some stuff in current kickstart %post won't be needed for xs-0.7
> 
> - some stuff in current kickstart can be sanely moved to a firstboot script
> 
> - other stuff (like network config) should be handled somewhere else
> -- and here I strongly prefer a combination of Moodle admin UI taking
> the values and writing them to a pre-arranged file. Scripts running as
> root can then read those files, check for sanity, and apply the
> changes. We can use incrond to trigger those.

Moodle takes over yet another part of the world...

Martin,
   Over a year ago I thought we agreed on grabbing those parameters
at first boot from a file, either provided through a USB key or placed on
the disk during initialization.   I guess that plan fell through ?

Cheers,
wad