Crashing on missing network adapters

[Ajitabh Pandey]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:00 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Alain TAUCH wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:35:43 +0100
> >Alan Barrow [Alan] wrote:
> >
> >[...]
<snipped...>
> >
> >But I agree with Philip, it could be nice to have the missing adapters
> >information just dropped, instead of exiting the installation process.
>
> I'm not saying drop it...  I'm saying store it away so that it's there
> when the NIC's are present...
> 
<snipped...>

Well you can write the NIC configuration scripts in the %post section
that's what I do sometime when I am not sure about the networking side.
I just create something like this:

%post

cat >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 <<__EOF__

...
...
...
__EOF__

ofcourse actual parameters instead of ... :-)

That's the way I create NIC bonding through kickstart.

Regards.
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