FC6: kickstart, static ip

Michael Welle m.welle at gmx.net
Thu Feb 8 11:35:19 UTC 2007


Hi,

"Chris Rouch" <chris.rouch at gmail.com> writes:

> On 2/7/07, Michael Welle <m.welle at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I do kickstart installations and try to assign a static ip
>> address to the clients:
>>
>> network --device eth0 --hostname xx --ip xx.xx.xx.1
>> --bootproto static --nameserver xx.xx.xx.2 --gateway xx.xx.xx.3
>> --netmask 255.255.255.0
>>
>> After a successful installation process the clients come up and try to
>> reach a dhcp server (see dhcp discovers in a network trace). Since I
>> have no dhcp server in this network the clients come up without a
>> network connection. Seems like a bug to me (FC5 works as expected with
>> the same setup). Any hints?
>
> I've seens something similar, but in my case I kickstarted one machine
> and then moved the disk to the server I really wanted it on
> afterwards. I assumed the network funnies were due to this.
>
> Your network stanza certainly looks ok to me.
the order of the parameters seems to be irrelevant?


> If you think it's a bug, put it in bugzilla. If you want a workaround,
> save a working ifcfg-eth0 and copy it in place after the install,
> either manually or via kickstart's postinstall (to put the file on the
> system) and /etc/rc.local (to put it where it belongs after the
> reboot).
Thanks for the hint. I will implement that.


Michael

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