Ignite Environments

[Tim Stallman]

Hi,

I'm trying to use ignite to field four identical systems except for networking information. I would like to use the environments feature of ignite to do this, ie the screen that comes up after you choose your system from the INDEX file on a lan boot. Is it possible to create an environment section and load a different hosts and resolv.conf file based upon what environment the user chooses or is it better to make that a post configuration option?

Thx,
Tim

[Kellogg Unix Team]

Tim,

If you have to install more systems on those networks, then you can modify the template and save it with appropriate name for future use. If its the only one system, I will just modify the configuration but won't save it.

Yes, you can write post-install script to do this magic as well. For some network files, you will have to modify the default files - take a look at following 2 files -

/opt/ignite/data/scripts/os_arch_post_c
/opt/ignite/data/scripts/os_arch_post_l

HTH
...Manjeet

[Tim Stallman]

Yes i was just looking at those in our lab. I think I will try to use the first option and have multiple netconf, resolv.conf, and hosts files on the system and based upon the select the user makes, i.e. their location in the world, I will copy the proper files over.