On 10/17/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Al Tobey wrote: > > Attached is a patch to add a -A/--autonet option to koan. > > > > As an introduction, here's the relevant part of the man page: > > > > --autonet Tells koan to configure the installer's networking on the > > kernel command line using ip=/netmask=/gateway=, etc.. First, it > > will download the kickstart configuration and check for a network > > --bootproto=static method. If that fails and --replace-self has been > > specified, it will use the current system's network configuration, as > > found using iproute2. > > > > > To summarize: it keeps the real or virtual system from having to > initially DHCP when enough information is > stored in Cobbler (or can be found on the local system) so that it's not > required. Depending on the kickstarts > employed, the kickstart may still indicate a DHCP configuration, so this > would only save the initial DHCP. > > Did I get that right? Yes, that's exactly right. > > Obviously this only supports Linux systems. Also, this isn't really > > useful to most people without cobbler 0.6.3 (unreleased) or weird > > template hacks to do netmask/gateway lookups like I'm using. It's > > working really well for me both on Xen VM's and for re-imaging servers > > to new/different OS's. > > > For clarification, Cobbler 0.6.3 is relevant because each NIC has an > optional --gateway and --subnet parameter, where > before there's not as clean of a way to save/access that information > (--ksmeta). > > > > Please comment. > > -Al Tobey _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
