Specifying values dynamically using pre section

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 11:03, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > 1. Is there support in netboot image for a command line parm something
> > like this:
> > ksmacaddr = 00:00:54:4a:34:9e  instead of ksdevice = eth20
> >
> > Note: I could use the %pre and ifconfg -a to find out what which nic card
> > to put in the kickstart file, but that still does not help me.  The
> > netboot image runs before kicstart %pre would be involked and I have to
> > know the right nic name to pass to netboot.img.
>
> I don't know if there is this specifically.  I do know that you can do
> ksdevice=link and that will use whichever nic actually has link to it.  Not
> sure if this helps.  I'll poke at some anaconda folks and see if there is a
> way to specify the macaddr to use for the ksdevice.

And I have an answer.  They claim that ksdevice should take a macaddr 
argument.  Seems to have been from one of the updates to RHEL3, RHEL3U4 or so 
got this support.

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