static ips and automation

[Lavender, Leo]

Check out
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-gui
de/index.html for kickstart.

Here's a couple of example lines.

network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn --netmask
255.255.248.0 --gateway nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn --nameserver nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
--hostname george03
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 --enablenis --nisdomain kmgep
--nisserver nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

Post install scripts can do the rest for you.

I defer to the experts fot update methods. However, since you are RHEL
3, I assume that your applications are release sensitive. Could be worth
dedicating a test machine. Local satillite servers, etc., will take more
admin. 

Use more Google.

Good luck, Leo

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Joe Van Dyk
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:55 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: static ips and automation


Hi,

Is there some obvious way that I'm missing to easily give a computer a
static IP address (and gateway/nameserver) during an automated kickstart
installation?  Each computer has their own IP and some are on multiple
networks (i.e. more than NIC).

Currently, the kickstart installation gives each one a DHCP address,
then after the installation is complete and the computer reboots,
someone then has to go through the redhat GUI and enter in its
networking information.  (And then run a script that nfs mounts a
directory and installs some additional rpms that depend on it being
networked correctly.)

And say I've got twenty computers all set up (with RHEL 3).  Would I use
up2date on them to keep them err, up to date?  That involves me setting
up a server somewhere with updated RPMs?

Sorry for the silly questions.  I'm not a system administrator at all
and I have no idea why I'm the one doing this.

Joe

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