%post DHCP?

[Daniel Segall]

You shouldn't need to obtain an IP in %post, unless it is a different
netblock. It sounds like your NFS server is providing the IP, thus you
should just need to mount the share.

mount -r -o nolock 10.4.146.47:/var/entrust/eewmc/7.5/image /mnt/entrust

-Dan

> Hi guys.
>
> Thanks for answering my previous post, I removed the -nochroot from %post
> and I was able to work some magic on the rest of the FS. My chvt 3 was in
> the script I was trying to copy, I moved it to the kickstart itself.
>
> Now, my apparent last problem is I can't get DHCP working from %post.
>
> The kickstart install was from the same NFS server that I want to copy my
> script from to the local system. The NFS install proceed fine, but %post
> isn't able to mount a new NFS point.
>
> I've tried...
>
> %post
> ifconfig
> service portmap start
> mkdir /mnt/entrust
> mount 10.4.146.47:/var/entrust/eewmc/7.5/image /mnt/entrust
> cp /mnt/entrust/init/runonce.bsh /tmp/runonce.bsh
>
> ...the TTY reports that eth0 doesn't have an IP address yet. It's the
> regular ifconfig output, but with the IP/Mask line missing. Naturally the
> mount isn't going to succeed if it can't reach the server, so that error
> is
> also reported.
>
> Are there any generally kickstart issues with using DHCP? I also tried the
> following in my %post without luck.
>
> %post
> echo "check_link_down() {" >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> echo "     return 1;"      >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> echo "}"                   >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup eth0
> ifconfig
> service portmap start
> mkdir /mnt/entrust
> mount 10.4.146.47:/var/entrust/eewmc/7.5/image /mnt/entrust
> cp /mnt/entrust/init/runonce.bsh /tmp/runonce.bsh
>
> This time when ifup runs, I get...
>
> Determining IP information for eth0... Failed.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> - Chris
>
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