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color=#0000ff size=2>You may be running into the timeout issue when connected to
Cisco (and probably other) switches.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=138310400-01052008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>use the ethtool option to set speed/duplex/auto-neg and use
a delay if needed. You can find all these options in my presentation last
year at Linuxworld</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=138310400-01052008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.shabazian.com/lw2007.pdf">http://www.shabazian.com/lw2007.pdf</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Brent
Clements<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:27 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
kickstart-list@redhat.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> RHEL 3 kickstart network retrieval
issue<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>I am having the wierdest issue with RHEL 3 network installs. </DIV>
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<DIV>When I boot with a RHEL 3 boot media, I use the following boot
commandline:</DIV>
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<DIV>linux ks=<A href="http://myhost/RHEL3.ks">http://myhost/RHEL3.ks</A>
ksdevice=eth0 ip=<MYIP> netmask=<MYNETMASK>
gateway=<MYGATEWAY> dns=<MYDNS></DIV>
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<DIV>Anaconda boots up but it fails at installing. I switch over to a terminal
and it shows that anaconda has failed to retrieve the kickstart file from the
network and also I see a no route to host error. Does not look like the network
device is being set up correctly based upon the boot commandline
parameters.</DIV>
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<DIV>To Troubleshoot to make sure it wasn't the kickstart file that was the
problem, I stuck this same kickstart file as an embedded kickstart on the cd and
it worked fine. So that doesn't get me anywhere and validates that
my actual kickstart file doesn't have errors and can install an
OS </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So, I try doing the same thing but with RHEL 4 media and a RHEL4 based
kickstart using the boot commandline</DIV>
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<DIV>
<DIV>linux ks=<A href="http://myhost/RHEL4.ks">http://myhost/RHEL4.ks</A>
ksdevice=eth0 ip=<MYIP> netmask=<MYNETMASK>
gateway=<MYGATEWAY> dns=<MYDNS></DIV>
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<DIV>Everything works fine using RHEL 4 and the command line stated right
above.</DIV>
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<DIV>Are their known issues with setting network parameters at
the command line with RHEL 3? </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>