Manual network config, fetch tcp/ip setup from stage1 in stage2

[Kyle Powell]

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Erling Ringen Elvsrud wrote:
> Do you know if there is a way to fetch the tcp/ip config from stage 1
> in stage 2 to avoid
> repeating the configuration? like in %prescript?

Hi Erling,

Absolutely, and you're on the right track. You can %include a file generated
with a %pre script in your kickstart. Simply have a pre script that generates a
file containing the network line (network --device ethx --bootproto static
[--noipv6] --ip x.x.x.x --netmask x.x.x.x --gateway x.x.x.x --nameserver
x.x.x.x[,x.x.x.x] [--hostname %s]) then use a %include statement to add the
contents of the file to the kickstart. You may be able to simply parse the
contents of /tmp/netinfo or the output of ifconfig, or you may need to resort to
python (isys.getIPAddress). Incidentally, you could also avoid having to enter
the info for stage 1 by passing it as command line parameters (ip=, netmask=,
etc...). If you do this you could parse /proc/cmdline for the info.
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Kyle Powell | Red Hat | Senior Consultant, RHCE
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