Okay, okay, so as soon as I sent the message I knew that anaconda doesn't *run* before the boot prompt. So, my question is, is there a way to get anaconda to print the MAC address right after it starts running? Thanks, -- Jim Barbour --- Staff Engineer, Systems Programmer/Administrator ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office: 858-651-2616 "Standing next to me in this lonely crowd Pager: 800-200-6068 There's a man who swears he's not to blame. Cel: 619-977-6491 Every night I hear him shout so loud, Alphapg:jbarbour@pager Cryin' out that he's been framed." - Bob Dylan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:45:15 PDT, kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx wrote... +] Hello, +] +] I am new to kickstarts, having spent a lot of time working with +] Solaris jumpstarts and HP ignite. +] +] Our UNIX environment is mostly fixed-IPs, and so our network based +] kickstarts will also avoid DHCP. +] +] Toward that end, I'm using network --bootproto bootp in ks.cfg +] +] We already have processes in place that allow our techs to map a +] hardware address to an IP address on our bootp servers. The thing is, +] on our Suns, its relatively easy to get the MAC address. Is there a +] way I can get anacanda to spit out the ethernet card's MAC address +] early in the boot process (i.e. before the boot: prompt) +] +] Feel free to flame me with the "obvious" place in the docs where I +] should have seen this :-) +] +] Thanks for any and all help... +] -- +] Jim Barbour --- Staff Engineer, Systems Programmer/Administrator +] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +] Office: 858-651-2616 "Standing next to me in this lonely crowd +] Pager: 800-200-6068 There's a man who swears he's not to blame. +] Cel: 619-977-6491 Every night I hear him shout so loud, +] Alphapg:jbarbour@pager Cryin' out that he's been framed." - Bob Dylan +] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +] +] +] +] _______________________________________________ +] Kickstart-list mailing list +] Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx +] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list +]
