Re: confg-kickstart web interface

Brent Fox wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 18:09, Mark Heslep wrote:
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>>Are there any plans underway add a web interface to the kickstart tool?
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>I have not considered this before.  RHN has web kickstart features for
>system deployment and provisioning.  This is nice because the target
>system will then pull the installation down from RHN and do a network
>install.
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Hmmm - I had seen that much capability on rhn.rh.com - just the usuall 
channel / hosts selection.  Do you mean ks is
available if you buy the RHN self hosting package?

>>There are several pojects to produce  dynamically generated web forms 
>>such as Brian Long's Kickstart tools (http://kickstart-tools.sf.net/ )  
>>and NC State's   web-kickstart  
>>(http://linux.ncsu.edu/projects/web-kickstart/) to name just two.  And I 
>>remember a PHP form put out  some time ago.  However, rolling your own 
>>ks web form effectively creates your own personal fork of  
>>..config-kickstart that must then be maintained and so loses the 
>>leverage of the  mainstream RH/Fedora tool.  
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>>If nothing's planned now, any recomendation as to how best to 
>>technically proceed?
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>This would require some pretty heavy reworking of the s-c-kickstart
>code, but it is possible.  I'm interested to know what benefits you feel
>the web interface would provide that isn't provided by the existing
>interface.
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Remote configuration from a ks / network install server,  escpecially 
for MS boxes looking to migrate to linux or dual boot.  The ks file 
would then be delivered via CGI to the network installation.

-Mark

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