RE: help with network configuration

["Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni@xxxxxxxxx>]

That’s what I ended up doing.

 

I change the host name in /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network, and I manually reconfigure ethX by playing with the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX files. Everything is done in a %post section.

 

I just wished there was an easier way to configure networking in the kickstart configuration file.

 

Have a nice day

GV

 

From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Moray Henderson
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 8:26 AM
To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart'
Subject: RE: help with network configuration

 

From: Gianluca Varenni [mailto:gianluca.varenni@xxxxxxxxx]
Is there a way in the kickstart configuration file to tell anaconda to configure the network interfaces with some parameters (e.g. DHCP vs static IP, onboot…) but do *not* bring them up during installation (so in practice just write the ifcfg-ethX files)?

I tried with

 

network  --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 -- –hostname=myhost

 

but the problem is that during the installation it tries to bring eth0 up and get the IP address (eventually timing out).

If I don’t put that line in the kickstart file, all the interfaces are silently configured for DHCP and and the hostname is not configured.

 

Don’t configure the network in the kickstart and write the hostname configuration from the %post section; or configure a dummy IP with the network option  then edit the network configuration in %post?

 

 

Moray.
"To err is human.  To purr, feline"

 

 

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