Kickstart fails with multiple ethernet adapters

[Tom Diehl]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 dadembro at rockwellcollins.com wrote:

> I hope someone can provide some insight with the following problem.
> 
> I have several duplicate systems I am trying to use a kickstart file to
> setup with redhat version 9.
> One of the systems has an additional ethernet adapter and this one fails to
> use the kickstart file
> which all the other systems accept.
> 
> Sample kickstart command:
> 
> linux ks=http://199.0.0.100/kickstart/u_ios_ks.cfg ip=199.0.0.5
> netmask=255.255.255.0
> 
> this works for all the systems except the one with two network adapters.
> 
> linux ks=http://199.0.0.100/kickstart/u_ios_ks.cfg ip=199.0.0.5
> netmask=255.255.255.0 ksdevice=eth0
> 
> also fails, however,
> 
> linux ks=hd:fd0/u_ios_ks.cfg ksdevice=eth0

Try ksdevice=link. I have seen anaconda's idea of which device is eth0 be different
than mine on occasion.

HTH,

Tom