On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Brian Long wrote: > On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 00:16 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 Elizabeth.Brosch@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > I just changed the pxeconfig file - ksdevice eth3. I finally received > > > an IP addr and a mountd request! But then the installer goes looking > > > for eth0 network info and fails there. > > > > Save yourself a bunch pf pain in the future use ksdevice=link in the pxe config > > file or on the command line. That way it will use whatever nic has a link. > > Worst case is you boot once and the device in the ks.cfg file is wrong but > > anaconda will tell you that, so you can fix the cfg file. > > We've started using ksdevice=<MAC ADDRESS> on our new PxeLinux-based > installations. We have servers with public and private networks, so > ksdevice=link will not always work (it might try to kickstart on a > private network with no DHCP server, no router, etc). Thanks, I just learned something. I did not know it would take a mac address. :-) That makes it a good day!! Regards, Tom Diehl tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx Spamtrap address mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx
