<div>maybe there is something wrong with your spell,please verify '–hostname',it '--' not '–'</div><div> </div><blockquote id="isReplyContent" style="padding-left:1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><div class="WordSection1">That’s what I ended up doing.<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>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.<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>I just wished there was an easier way to configure networking in the kickstart configuration file.<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>Have a nice day<o:p></o:p>GV<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">From:<a href="mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com">kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>[mailto:<a href="mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com">kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>]On Behalf OfMoray Henderson Sent:Friday, January 21, 2011 8:26 AM To:'Discussion list about Kickstart' Subject:RE: help with network configuration<o:p></o:p></div></div><o:p> </o:p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">From:Gianluca Varenni [mailto:<a href="mailto:gianluca.varenni@gmail.com">gianluca.varenni@gmail.com</a>] 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)?<o:p></o:p></div></div>I tried with<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=on –hostname=myhost<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>but the problem is that during the installation it tries to bring eth0 up and get the IP address (eventually timing out).<o:p></o:p>If I don’t put that line in the kickstart file, all the interfaces are silently configured for DHCP and onboot=yes, and the hostname is not configured.<o:p></o:p></div><o:p> </o:p>Don’t configure the network in the kickstart and write the hostname configuration from the %post section; or configure a dummy IP with thenetworkoption then edit the network configuration in %post?<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><o:p> </o:p>Moray. "To err is human. To purr, feline"<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><o:p> </o:p></div></blockquote>