Ajitabh Pandey wrote: >On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:00 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > >>Alain TAUCH wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:35:43 +0100 >>>Alan Barrow [Alan] wrote: >>> >>>[...] >>> >>> ><snipped...> > > >>>But I agree with Philip, it could be nice to have the missing adapters >>>information just dropped, instead of exiting the installation process. >>> >>> >>I'm not saying drop it... I'm saying store it away so that it's there >>when the NIC's are present... >> >> >> ><snipped...> > >Well you can write the NIC configuration scripts in the %post section >that's what I do sometime when I am not sure about the networking side. >I just create something like this: > >%post > >cat >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 <<__EOF__ > >... >... >... >__EOF__ > >ofcourse actual parameters instead of ... :-) > >That's the way I create NIC bonding through kickstart. > >Regards. > > The problem, of course, is that it's more complicated than that. There are hard-links that need to be created in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ and /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles (etc). Since the functionality is already in the "network" command, let's get it to work properly, rather than adding clutter in the form of work-arounds. We could add "--optional" to the network command, to mean that we don't really care if the hardware is present or not... just go ahead and config the parameters anyway. -Philip
