On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Kyle McDonald <kmcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to setup PXE network installs that are interactive, but I'd like > to limit the amount of questions the user has to enter for each one. The > PXE boot already passes some kernel args to configure the serial > console, and force a vnc install. I'm wondering if I can also supply the > NFS location for the media as a kernel arg so that users don't need to > type it in everytime (It's always the same, and it's long.) If pass a kickstart file location in, this can be handle inside of the kickstart. > > Also I know when doing KickStart installs, you can use ks-device=eth1 to > avoid being prompted for the network device when there is more than one. > Can I use this same option so that the interactive user doesn't have to > know which eth to pick? Are you using pxelinux? If so then you can use 'APPEND 2' to set the boot interface http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#IPAPPEND_flag_val_.5BPXELINUX_only.5D > > On a related note, is there a way to have anaconda figure out which > interface the PXE boot booted the machine on and just go with that one? > Right now I need to make 2 different PXE boot config files for the 2 > types of machines I have because one boots on eth0 and the other on eth1. If you use the above and a kickstart file that uses dhcp then the networking stuff should be done. _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
