Jesse, If ksdevice=link will work thats all I need. Do you know if I can use device=link in the kickstart file too: network --device link --bootproto static --ip 9.3.22.109 --netmask 255.255.255.1 28 --gateway 9.3.22.1 --nameserver 9.0.7.1 --hostname sift22109.austin.ibm.com And do you know anything about the SuSE distribution. I need to pass the device to its bootimage too.. The SuSE autoyast.xml file does take the mac address but the boot image does not. I can try netdevice=link as command line parm to its boot image. Thanks this just may do it. Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:57 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx cc: From: Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Specifying values dynamically using pre section On Wednesday 06 September 2006 09:43, Tom Miller wrote: > My question is this. > > 1. Is there support in netboot image for a command line parm something like > this: > ksmacaddr = 00:00:54:4a:34:9e instead of ksdevice = eth20 > > Note: I could use the %pre and ifconfg -a to find out what which nic card > to put in the kickstart file, but that still does not help me. The netboot > image runs before kicstart %pre would be involked and I have to know the > right nic name to pass to netboot.img. I don't know if there is this specifically. I do know that you can do ksdevice=link and that will use whichever nic actually has link to it. Not sure if this helps. I'll poke at some anaconda folks and see if there is a way to specify the macaddr to use for the ksdevice. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub (See attached file: C.DTF) _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list