How to call FAI_ACTION install from a hook?

[Andre Roslindo Vasko]

Hi Oliver,

Thanks for answering... but PXEMENU is not the solution.

The machine has already booted, so I can't call PXEMENU. This tool, as 
far as I know the PXEMENU is called to select the boot device.

I want to boot from network, I need the FAI system. I just having 
problems trying to change the FAI_ACTION after the "/usr/sbin/fai" 
script has been already started.

Does anyone used the "hooks" from FAI? Does anyone never tried to create 
a menu asking the user if they want to install Debian with or without 
GNOME for example?





Oliver Osburg escreveu:
> Hi Andre,
> 
> did you take a look at pxemenu? (https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/pxeconfig/browser/trunk/README-pxemenu just one of the first hits in google...) With pxemenu you should be able to set FAI_ACTION to any value you like.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 
> * Andre Roslindo Vasko <andrevasko at celepar.pr.gov.br> [080221 13:45]:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Sorry to bother you, but I need your help.
>>
>> I installed FAI on my server and I REALLY NEED to put a menu BEFORE the
>> installation starts. So I created a hook called "menu" and changed the
>> FAI_ACTION to "menu". After the user choose some option on the menu, I want to
>> change the FAI_ACTION to "install" but I got errors when I run "fai -N
>> install".
>>
>> Is there a way to call the script /usr/sbin/fai with the FAI_ACTION set to
>> install from a hook that I created?
>>
>> I don't want to destroy the work that Thomas did creating FAI, so I'm asking if
>> there is a "correct" way to call install from a hook. But I could simple edit
>> the code of function "install" and put the code from my hook there, what I
>> think that is a "wrong" and "dirty" way to do that.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> ANDR  VASKO