non interactive install

John.Dickinson at nominet.org.uk John.Dickinson at nominet.org.uk
Thu Dec 1 15:28:33 UTC 2005


Hi,

I am trying to do a non interactive install of a set of HP BL25p blades 
using kickstart, pxelinux and NFS. The blades have 4 network interfaces 
and every time I boot and run the installer I get a message telling me 
that I have multiple network devices and asking which network interface I 
wish to do the install through. Is there anyway to get kickstart to stop 
asking? I just want it to access the nfs share through eth0 using DHCP. 
When I press OK everything works fine.

I have the following kickstart file

Generated by Kickstart Configurator
#platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T

#System  language
lang en_GB
#Language modules to install
langsupport en_GB
#System keyboard
keyboard uk
#System mouse
mouse
#Sytem timezone
timezone Europe/London
#Root password
rootpw testing
#Reboot after installation
reboot
#Use text mode install
text
#Install OS instead of upgrade
install
#Use NFS installation Media
nfs --server=A.B.C.D  --dir=/var/provisioning/linux/CentOS4.2 
#System bootloader configuration
bootloader --location=mbr
#Clear the Master Boot Record
zerombr yes
#Partition clearing information
clearpart --all --initlabel
#Disk partitioning information
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100
part / --fstype ext3 --size 10240
part swap --size 2048
part /var --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow
#System authorization infomation
auth  --useshadow  --enablemd5
#Network information
network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0
network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth1
network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth2
network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth3
#Firewall configuration
firewall --disabled
#Do not configure XWindows
skipx
#Package install information
%packages --resolvedeps 

Thanks
John




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