disabling dhcp for eth1 in kernel

[Harry Mills]

Glad it's working.

On Thu, 25 Aug, Lloyd T Brown wrote:
> Actually, I had a line for both eth1 and eth0 in the ks.cfg.  By some 
> random coincidence, eth1 was first, although that may not mean much.  I 
> commented out the line for eth1, and the install went straight through.  
> Normally, this would probably not set up the eth1 interface at all, but 
> the appropriate files for our really weird network setup are being 
> copied over in the %post script, so everything should be fine.  It's 
> installing right now.  I'll let you all know if I have any other problems.
> 
> So, I guess that means that the installer was pulling the ks.cfg over 
> eth0, noticed the eth1 line (static, but without any address) and tried 
> to configure it.  Do you suppose that the fact that the eth1 line was 
> above the eth0 line in the file had anything to do with it?  I may have 
> to experiment some more tomorrow.


I think this is exactly what happened, but I am sure the order makes no difference. KS tried to configure eth1 because it was included in the ks.cfg but was lacking a complete confgiuration.

The proof of this would be to put the line back in but with all the config info for it included.

 
> Thanks again.  You guys have been a great help
> Lloyd Brown
> BYU Supercomputing (http://marylou.byu.edu)
> 
> 

:)


Harry