[Xen-devel] RE: [RFC][PATCH] create an initrd for dom0 in instal

To:	"Harry Butterworth" <harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	[Xen-devel] RE: [RFC][PATCH] create an initrd for dom0 in install.shscript
From:	"Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh" <aravindh.puthiyaparambil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:23:10 -0500
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Kind of crude but you could try parsing /etc/issue. 

SLES cat /etc/issue
Welcome to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (x86_64) - Kernel \r (\l).

Fedora cat /etc/issue
Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz)
Kernel \r on an \m

Aravindh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Butterworth [mailto:harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:10 PM
> To: Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh
> Cc: Sean Dague; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [RFC][PATCH] create an initrd for dom0 in
install.shscript
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what the best way of determining what distro
> is installed is?
> 
> Harry


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