Crashing on missing network adapters

[Philip Prindeville]

Ajitabh Pandey wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:00 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>Alain TAUCH wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 17 May 2006 09:35:43 +0100
>>>Alan Barrow [Alan] wrote:
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>>>But I agree with Philip, it could be nice to have the missing adapters
>>>information just dropped, instead of exiting the installation process.
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>>I'm not saying drop it...  I'm saying store it away so that it's there
>>when the NIC's are present...
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>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:
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>%post
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>cat >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 <<__EOF__
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>...
>...
>...
>__EOF__
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>ofcourse actual parameters instead of ... :-)
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>That's the way I create NIC bonding through kickstart.
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>Regards.
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The problem, of course, is that it's more complicated than that.  There are
hard-links that need to be created in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/
and /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles (etc).

Since the functionality is already in the "network" command, let's get it to
work properly, rather than adding clutter in the form of work-arounds.

We could add "--optional" to the network command, to mean that we don't
really care if the hardware is present or not... just go ahead and
config the
parameters anyway.

-Philip