Jesse, The ksdevice=link did work with this RHEL5 beta1 version of netboot.img! It was able to configure the right nic card and nfs mount the server to fetch the kickstart file. But then with this in the kickstart file : network --device link --bootproto static --ip 9.3.22.109 --netmask 255.255.255.128 --gateway 9.3.22.1 --nameserver 9.0.7.1 --hostname sift22109.austin.ibm.com anacondo could not configure the right nic card: When it tried the nfs mount to the install image dir it failed: |That directory could not be ¦ ¦ mounted from the server. | I guess I still need to be able to put mac address in kickstart file. 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