Specifying values dynamically using pre section

[Tom Miller]

Jesse,
The ksdevice=link did  work with this RHEL5 beta1 version of netboot.img!
It was able to
configure the right nic card and nfs mount the server to fetch the
kickstart file.  But then
with this in the kickstart file :
network --device link --bootproto static --ip 9.3.22.109 --netmask
255.255.255.128 --gateway 9.3.22.1 --nameserver 9.0.7.1 --hostname
sift22109.austin.ibm.com

anacondo could not configure the right nic card:  When it tried the nfs
mount to the install
image dir it failed:

                       |That directory could not be    ¦
                       ¦ mounted from the server.     |

I guess I still need to be able to put mac address in kickstart file.




Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:57 AM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
cc:
From: Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net>
Subject: Re: Specifying values dynamically using pre section


On Wednesday 06 September 2006 09:43, Tom Miller wrote:
> My question is this.
>
> 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.

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