I even can't create any files during pre. <div>Thanks for help On Monday, April 11, 2016, William H. ten Bensel <<a href="mailto:WHTENBEN@up.com">WHTENBEN@up.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hopefully this example will help. You should be able to configure your hostname logic like the following: We had to do the following with CentOS 7.2 and Oracle Linux 7.2, because there is a bug with how the static --network line is being generated. (Bug opened with support and they have confirmed). Systems -> Kickstarts -> Profiles -> {profile} -> Kickstart Details -> Advanced Options -> Custom Options: %include /tmp/network.out Systems -> Kickstarts -> Profiles -> {profile} -> Scripts: Name: Static_BUG $SNIPPET('spacewalk/1/72network_bug') Pre-Script Check template --> Do not forget this, or it will not work. <tt>%pre --log /tmp/ks-pre.log.1 # BEGIN: network Snippet # Issue with CentOS 7.2, not able to handle just network --bootproto static </tt> <tt># Get the static information that was passed during anaconda. cat /proc/cmdline > /tmp/cmdline.out server_ip=`awk -F"ip=" '{print $2}' /tmp/cmdline.out |awk '{print $1}'|awk -F":" '{print $1}'` server_gw=`awk -F"ip=" '{print $2}' /tmp/cmdline.out |awk '{print $1}'|awk -F":" '{print $3}'` server_nm=`awk -F"ip=" '{print $2}' /tmp/cmdline.out |awk '{print $1}'|awk -F":" '{print $4}'` server_host=`awk -F"ip=" '{print $2}' /tmp/cmdline.out |awk '{print $1}'|awk -F":" '{print $5}'` server_dns=`awk -F"nameserver=" '{print $2}' /tmp/cmdline.out |awk '{print $1}'` if [[ -n "$server_host" ]]; then cat <<_EOF >/tmp/network.out network --noipv6 --onboot=yes --bootproto static --ip=$server_ip --netmask=$server_nm --gateway=$server_gw --nameserver=$server_dns --hostname=$server_host --device=link --activate _EOF # Another snippet will handle hostname, /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig/network, and/or</tt> <tt># /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* if it is not passed here. </tt> <tt># That script most come prior to Registration and Activation!! else cat <<_EOF >/tmp/network.out </tt> <tt> network --noipv6 --onboot=yes --bootproto static --ip=$server_ip --netmask=$server_nm --gateway=$server_gw --nameserver=$server_dns --device=link --activate _EOF fi # END: network Snippet</tt> - Thanks and good luck From: Konstantin Raskoshnyi <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','konrasko@gmail.com');" target="_blank">konrasko@gmail.com</a>> To: <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','spacewalk-list@redhat.com');" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> Date: 04/11/2016 07:42 PM Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] PRE Section doesn't work at all KVM Guest Sent by: <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com');" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> <hr noshade> This email originated from outside of the company. Please use discretion if opening attachments or clicking on links.<hr> After installation there's no file pre_install_network_config in tmp directory.. May be nochroot can help? On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Colin Coe <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','colin.coe@gmail.com');" target="_blank">colin.coe@gmail.com</a>> wrote: Are you including that file? The following will need to be in your kickstart... %include /tmp/pre_install_network_config On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Konstantin Raskoshnyi <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','konrasko@gmail.com');" target="_blank">konrasko@gmail.com</a>> wrote: Stuck on this problem - I wanted to set up hostname for KVM machine on pre, ok - I spent 3 days, but in fact ks ignore all pre sections... also I found that Spacewalk trying to set hostname by itself, here the text from anakonda.cfg # Start of code to match cobbler system interfaces to physical interfaces by their mac addresses # Start eth0 # Configuring eth0 (00:16:3e:53:0e:0d) if mac_exists 00:16:3e:53:0e:0d then get_ifname 00:16:3e:53:0e:0d echo "network --device=$IFNAME --bootproto=dhcp --hostname=virttest001" >> /tmp/pre_install_network_config fi But no logs, no errors, no other stuff. 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