Specify MAC address in kickstart

[Harry Hoffman]

Awesome! thanks for the heads up... hopefully the bootparam manpage will 
be updated

Jason Kohles wrote:
>>
> On newer hardware it doesn't work at all, in modern hardware (after the 
> mid-90s), the BIOS assigns the IO and IRQ at boot time, so you can't 
> reliably predict what it will be in order to pass it on the command 
> line.  Also the arguments to ether= can vary depending on the driver 
> being used for the card.
> 
> On top of all that, ether= has been deprecated as of kernel 2.6.10.
> 
> You can change the device name at run time though, with ip:
> 
> ip link set eth0 name eth1
> 
> but putting HWADDR in network-scripts/ifcfg-* does this for you, and you 
> don't have to figure out which ones are wrong in order to change them.
> 
>> Cheers,
>> Harry
>>