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<DIV>Collin, </DIV>
<DIV> Thanks for your reply.</DIV>
<DIV> I would love to use dhcp, this would solve all my
problems but IBM prevents me from doing that. They do not pass dhcp requests
thru the site bridges/gateways/routes so I would have to have a dhcp server on
each subnet that contained victims to install. I have 5 servers in</DIV>
<DIV>Austin, one in Rochester, Mn and one in Poughkeepsie, NY and they install
100's of systems</DIV>
<DIV>a week on many different subnets. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> I did not realize that the installer and kernel couldn't
even agree on which nic was eth0.</DIV>
<DIV>Thats all the more need for anacondo and the netboot.img to deal with mac
addresses.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>You don't happen to be an anaconda coder do you?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>thanks</DIV>
<DIV>tom</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></FONT>
<DIV><I>Monday, August 21, 2006 7:51 PM<BR>To: "Discussion list about Kickstart"
<kickstart-list@redhat.com><BR>cc: <BR>From: "Coe, Colin C."
<Colin.Coe@woodside.com.au><BR>Subject: RE: Anaconda kickstart options and
lowlevel netboot.img input options.</I><BR><BR></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=578204200-22082006>If you
know the MAC addr, could you use a DHCP server with an entry for each LPAR you
want to install? Something like:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=578204200-22082006>allow
booting;<BR>allow bootp;</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006>...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006> </DIV></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=578204200-22082006>group
{<BR>
subnet 9.3.22.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
{<BR>
option domain-name
"ibm.com";<BR>
option subnet-mask
255.255.255.0;<BR>
option broadcast-address
9.3.22.255;<BR>
option domain-name-servers
9.0..7.1;<BR>
option routers 9.3.22.1;<BR>
}<BR> # PXE-specific configuration
directives...<BR> next-server
9.3.22.253;<BR> filename
"pxelinux.0";<BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006>...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006> host lpar02
{<BR>
hardware ethernet
2A:CA:30:00:40:02;<BR>
fixed-address
9.3.22.202;<BR>
option host-name "lpar02";<BR>
}</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006>...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006>}</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=578204200-22082006>Just a
thought.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=578204200-22082006>Also,
if you're using EL4, beware that sometimes the NIC that the installer decides is
eth0 is not what the installed kernel thinks is eth0.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=578204200-22082006>CC</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com]
<B>On Behalf Of </B>Tom Miller<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, 22 August 2006 3:06
AM<BR><B>To:</B> kickstart-list@redhat.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Anaconda
kickstart options and lowlevel netboot.img input options.
<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">I am using a kickstart.cfg file to load power
5 lpars via network install. I use a bootp server</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">to deliver the RedHat netboot.img to the
victim machine, I set the boot-file SMS env variable to pass boot image parms
to netboot.img. Here's what I pass:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"> text ip=9.3.22.104
netmask=255.255.255.128 gateway=9.3.22.1 nameserver=9.0.7.1 ksdevice=eth0
ks=nfs:9.3.80.16:/lpars/sift22104.cfg</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">This lets the netboot.img config eth0 to
access the ks file on the server. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">I have this network line in the
/lpars/sift22104.cfg kickstart file: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip
9.3.22.104 --netmask 255.255.255.128 --gateway 9.3.22.1 --nameserver 9.0.7.1
--hostname sift22104.austin.ibm.com</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">This works just fine and the install
completes. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">I need to make this work on lpars that have
never been loaded before and these lpars can have several eth adapters so
the user will not know what order the adatpers will be configured so he can't
specify eth0 or eth1 in the options above. I have expect code that goes
thru the SMS menus and attempts to ping the server on each eth adatper until
it finds one that is connected: I can pull the mac address for that card and
could at that point create the netboot.img boot parms line that includes the
mac address, but there is no way I can know what ethX redhat will confgure
this card as. I tried changing the netboot.img parms line
to:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"> text ip=9.3.22.104
netmask=255.255.255.128 gateway=9.3.22.1 nameserver=9.0.7.1
ksdevice=eth-id-2a:ca:30:00:40:02
ks=nfs:9.3.80.16:/lpars/sift22104.cfg</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>and the kickstart network line to this: </DIV>
<DIV>network --device eth-id-2a:ca:30:00:40:02 --bootproto static --ip
9.3.22.104 --netmask 255.255.255.128 --gateway 9.3.22.1 --nameserver 9.0.7.1
--hostname sift22104.austin.ibm.com</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>But it did not work.. I got a syntax error back from anaconda complaining
about this: </DIV>
<DIV><BR> self.setNetwork(id, bootProto, ip, netmask,
ethtool, device=device, onboot=onboot, dhcpclass=dhcpclass, essid=essid,
wepkey=wepkey)<BR> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/installclass.py", line 332,
in setNetwork<BR> dev = devices[device]<BR>KeyError:
'eth-id-2a:ca:30:00:40:02'</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I have searched thru doc's till I am blue and can't find out if there is
some way (any correct syntax) to pass the mac address to netboot.img and
anaconda instead of the ethX name.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Dose anyone know how this can be done, is it even in the
netboot.img/anaconda code to all this and deal with the mac address? </DIV>
<DIV>This is the last thing I need to fully automate these installs for my
users with kickstart instead of using expect to fill out all those changing
install menus in text mode. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>thanks</DIV>
<DIV>tom miller IBM.</DIV>
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