static network configuration ask

Ed Brown ebrown at lanl.gov
Thu Aug 30 22:30:52 UTC 2007


Kit Stube wrote:
>  Thanks Ed.  I'll try that and report back.  It's still a little more
> complicated than I would have liked as this will be used by people other
> than myself.   It really simplifies all the scripting I was doing in %post
> to force it to work despite the difficulties.  :-)
> 
> It would be much slicker if there were an "ask" option to the network or if
> it didn't default to dhcp  :-(

Inputting the parameters at the boot prompt prevents defaulting to 
dhcp initially.  Leaving them out means defaulting to dhcp attempts, 
but then you WILL get "ask"ed.  The problem there is that I don't 
think those answers are properly turned into final network 
configurations (ifcfg-ethN, /etc/sysconfig/network, /etc/hosts), 
without some %pre/%post help.

-Ed




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