[TriLUG] Kickstart Question

Roy Vestal rvestal at trilug.org
Sat Apr 5 20:01:09 EDT 2008


Will try. currently, I have the network statement to put in the 
nameserver and domain/search. Maybe a simple reorg of the file to use 
IP's in post will eliminate this need.  hmmm...

Steven Blanchard wrote:
> I have not tried it with the 'network' statement specifically but
> usually if you leave a command out of a kickstart it will prompt the
> user for the information.  Maybe the answer is as simple as removing the
> 'network' statement?
>
> ~Steven
>
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 04:12:56PM -0400, Roy Vestal wrote:
>   
>> I'm building a kickstart for internal use. I want to force it to use
>> CDROM media but I have a post install that needs to connect external. As
>> this is used for server installs, I want to have the user prompted for
>> network settings but not use the network for the install, i.e. nfs or
>> http. 
>>
>> The install is autopartition, auto-package selection, auto-"everything"
>> save the network settings. I want the user to put in hostname, IP,
>> netmask, and gateway.
>>
>> I've tried the following lines but they still just blow right past the
>> network and start the install:
>>
>> network --bootproto=static --nameserver=10.0.0.1 --device=eth0
>>
>> network --bootproto=query --nameserver=10.0.0.1 --device=eth0
>>
>> Ideas? 
>>
>> TIA
>>
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