Working around dhcp for kickstart file on network?

[Philip Rowlands]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Robinson, Andrew W. wrote:

>According to the Red Hat manual, when one specifies a kickstart file on
>the server with either nfs or http, anaconda (?) initiates a dhcp query
>to get the address of the client interface. Anyone know a way around
>this?

You can pass kernel command-line arguments which anaconda will recognise
to control the network addressing. See
/usr/share/doc/anaconda-*/command-line.txt

For example, in the bootloader config (in this case pxelinux):
label ks
  kernel vmlinuz
  append ks=nfs:10.1.1.1:/export/kickstart initrd=initrd.img ip=10.1.1.2 netmask=255.255.255.0


Cheers,
Phil