It does the reverse lookup even before it gets the kickstart file,
and flashes a screen telling you it's doing that, though often that
goes by so fast you don't see it. You can also watch for it on alt-F3
(or 4?) though. I don't know when it writes /etc/sysconfig/network,
but it's there in %post without my doing anything. You do have have
the 'network --bootproto=static' line in the kickstart file?
-ed
Kit Stube wrote:
Come to think of it, I have seen the behavior where the system appears to
have done a reverse lookup of its self and set it's own hostname. :-)
That's perfect. At what point during the install process does it do that?
Thanks again for all of the great info everyone.
Kit
On 8/30/07, Ed Brown <ebrown@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
To say this another way, it is not necessary to enter hostname as a
boot parameter, assuming the ip address can be resolved.
Ed Brown wrote:
hostname won't be set during the %post scriptlet without some help, but
it should be set on reboot just fine. To set it for the sake of
commands in %post (for example, if you need to run cfengine):
hostname `grep HOSTNAME /etc/sysconfig/network |cut -d'=' -f2`
But as the above implies, it should already be configured on reboot.
-Ed
Kit Stube wrote:
That worked for the most part. Ed, your a genious!
The only problem now is that it didn't set the hostname. Is there
some way
to use something like $hostname in post so I can set all that up?
Perhaps that was what Pablo was trying to tell me? I don't
understand how
to process /proc/commandline. Does anyone have an example?
I would be greatly appreciative.
Kit
On 8/30/07, Ed Brown <ebrown@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
boot: ip=blah gateway=blah netmask=blah dns=blah
This is not quite complete. And actually, we make a custom boot cd,
with multiple targets that contain the common parameters, so all
that's needed at the boot prompt is target, ip and gateway. You'll
probably need at least this:
boot: linux ks=http://url_of_kickstart_file ip=... gateway=...
netmask=... dns=...
-Ed
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