Re: static network configuration ask

["Kit Stube" <kstube gmail com>]

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 lanl gov > 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 lanl gov> 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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