On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Of possible interest to several folks: I had to (temporarily) remove the > "--autonet" code in koan today (this is a feature intended to ease usage of > --replace-self in DHCP-less environments), because of errors it was raising > in Python 2.3 regarding some bit shifting and so forth. As I wasn't too > familiar with the code and I don't have sufficient cycles to test it, it's > out for now, but obviously we don't want to keep it that way if people need > it. I will accept patches to get it cleaned up and added back -- though > I'm not sure it worked on EL4 in the past. For patches, ideally it would > not rely on direct parsing of commands and could get moved out to another > file. Koan is getting big enough now to use some cleanup in general so > I'll try to be doing some of that. That's too bad ... I was looking forward to not having to maintain a local version of koan any more. I'm not sure if it worked on EL4 since I mainly use koan -A for VM installs which run EL5 on dom0. My only request at this point is that either --ip, --netmask, and --gateway get added for setting network configuration on the kernel command line, or better yet a more generic option gets added, something like --cmdline "ip=x.x.x.x netmask=x.x.x.x gateway=x.x.x.x". That'd make it trivial to have a site-specific shell wrapper that sets up custom kernel command line arguments and solves a few other occasional problems (like pci=nommconf) in one fell swoop. Other neat stuff power users do could start working too. For example, koan --replace-self --cmdline "ksdevice=$macaddr" (handy for multi-homed Dell 1950's where you never know which interface will end up as eth0). I don't really have time to write the patch, or it'd be attached ;) It's a pretty simple modification though. -Al _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
