PXE install / Custom inird / custom password prog.

[jimsghost]

Hello,

I have a difficult task ahead and don't quite find a solution:
I have to modify a PXE environment, that it boots a custom image.
In this image I somehow need to get GTK loaded and display a custom python program.
OSs are: SLED10/11 and RHEL4/5, but the distro doesn't matter right now !

In other words:
I need to build a small python gtk password Programm into a linux boot image which is loaded before the PXE installation.
If you say: WAIT, pxelinux has a password function - Yes, I know. But this environment I'm working with unfortunately has NOT.
And I can't change that. It's a PXE via Altiris...
So I have to do the password demand with my own python program which naturally supports gtk.

Can anyone help me put these peaces together, how I can accomplish this, anyhow... ?
How do I modify for example the initrd to load gtk somehow and execute my python prog. before starting the installation of the OS ?

This is giving me a headache

Many thanks in advance
Jim

P.S. I don't need help with the python program, I'm just clueless on how to implement this with initrd or whatever via PXE

[jimsghost]

Greetings

I made some progress.
I boot a live linux via PXE, which starts a C-Prog. that needs a password and proceeds with a user mask for configuring the SUSE autoyast file which
is then saved locally on the client. Then I would need to reboot, but thats not a great solution. If the installation could go on from that point,
this would be fabulous... but so far, I don't know how this works (to unload a running system and load another one without reboot).

Jim