[et-mgmt-tools] koan-0.6.3-3.el4.mrh - kix templating - network rebuilt issue

[Al Tobey]

On Nov 30, 2007 2:56 AM, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I've applied Al Tobey's --autonet patch to koan upstream.
> >
> > This seems like it will fix your problem for profile based reinstalls,
> > because it will add in the IP info on the kernel command line based on
> > what you are currently using.
> >
> > Might be worth checking out.   You should be able to use koan 0.6.4
> > from git with your existing Cobbler install.
> >
>
> thanks for the effort here - alas it does not work for me as it makes
> grub look like this
>
> kernel /vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/1 ksdevice=eth0 lang= kssendmac syslog=19
> 2.168.10.4:25150 text ks=file:ks.cfg ip=$ip_address netmask=$subnet
> hostname=$ho
> stname nameserver=$nameserver gateway=$gateway

I would think that would cause anaconda to fail anyways.

In your template, try putting a check around the net config something like:

#if $varExists('ip_address')
  network --bootproto=static ...
#end if

-Al

> So its not getting the values, its getting the info from the ks template
> - Is there no way to get these values from the currently running OS ?
>
> thanks
>
>
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