Any way to detect server model?

Bas van der Vlies basv at sara.nl
Fri Mar 2 11:01:58 CST 2007


Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:58:41PM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>> Thanks for sharing!  Unfortunately, I needed to have a solution that would
>> work from the busyboxy shell used during a Kickstart install.  perl isn't
>> available to me (at least not easily) from %pre in Kickstart. :(
> 
> Libsmbios has the getSystemId binary which prints this information. Libsmbios will be in FC7 and will be in FC6 Extras soon.
> 

It is also in debian etch and up:
  * libsmbios-bin


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