Specifying values dynamically using pre section

Tom Miller tmafs at us.ibm.com
Wed Sep 6 17:36:10 UTC 2006


Shabazian,   is the format    ksdevice=00:45:8a:02:0e:12   or
ksdevice=00458a020e12
without the ":",  thanks

Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:56 AM
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From: "Shabazian, Chip" <Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com>
Subject: RE: Specifying values dynamically using pre section


ksdevice=mac_addr was added in RHEL3U7 and RHEL4U3

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Jesse,
That worked, your a life saver.  Thanks a million.
so ksdevice = link in boot parms and no device in kickstart file.

Now If I can get SuSE working?



Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:11 AM
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From: Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net>
Subject: Re: Specifying values dynamically using pre section


On Wednesday 06 September 2006 11:57, Tom Miller wrote:
> 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:

Hrm, What if you don't specify the device?

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