I’ve been building servers using the ISO for 6 years now and we always use the following setup the networking in the isolinux/isolinux.cfg file: default remoteks prompt 10 timeout 100 display boot.msg F1 boot.msg F2 options.msg F3 general.msg F4 param.msg F5 rescue.msg F7 snake.msg label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=124836 label localks kernel vmlinuz append ks=cdrom initrd=initrd.img text ramdisk_size=124836 label cdbuild kernel vmlinuz append ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg initrd=initrd.img netwait=60 lowres label remoteks kernel vmlinuz append ksdevice=eth0 netwait=60 blacklist=lpfc ks=http://100.1.1.1/ks.cfgs/ks.cfg.hostname ip=10.1.1.100 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.1.1.254 initrd=initrd.img The entry netwait=60 is a leftover from RHEL 5 but it hasn’t caused any problems with our RHEL 6 builds. This entry just give the network device 60 seconds to enable before it tried to start networking. We use blacklist=lpfc to make sure that the OS does not try to install on anything other than local devices. Good luck, Rob Fisher From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Brigman You can set the IP address from the boot line. You may need to know the mac address of the install interface if there is more than one interface on the server. On Dec 11, 2014 4:11 AM, "Frantisek Krecmer" <f.krecmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello, I have following scenario: - need to install very large number of physical servers - RHEL repository is on the network filer (url install, NFS install available) - there is no DHCP available (and it is not possible to have one - long story) My idea was to boot from installation image rhel-server-6.5-x86_64-boot.iso where I modified following: - isolinux.cfg to load kickstart file add kickstart file containing network configuration in %pre script (get serial number from dmidecode, assign IP, install from network. + configure hw raid etc etc) Basically, something like this: But. System asks for network settings when booted. - start Anaconda from CD (use local install.img), run %pre, download packages from url ? file copied to /tmp/ks.cfg setting up kickstart kickstart forcing text mode kickstartFromUrl results of url ks, url http://1.2.3.7/rhel-x86_64-server-6.5 trying to mount CD device /dev/sr0 on /mnt/stage2 drive status is CDC_DISC_OK transferring /mnt/stage2/images/install.img to /tmp mounted loopback device /mnt/runtime on /dev/loop0 as /tmp/install.img #Perfect Looking for updates in /mnt/stage2/images/updates.img Looking for product in /mnt/stage2/images/product.img mounted loopback device /tmp/product-disk on /dev/loop7 as /mnt/stage2/images/product.img umounting loopback /tmp/product-disk /dev/loop7 umounting loopback /mnt/runtime /dev/loop0 #Why?? no stage2= given, assuming http://1.2.3.7/rhel-x86_64-server-6.5/images/install.img #you have it in /tmp already! setting language to en_US.UTF-8 starting STEP_METHOD need to set up networking Do you have any idea if it possible to somehow change this stage2 behavior? I found Anaconda boot options but I am unable to set stage2 either by stage2= or inst.stage2=. (Any other idea how to set IP in ks.cfg and use it for packages downloading without DHCP would be also appreciated.)
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