AW: Kickstart using static IP address

[Simon Reber]

> Am 27.11.2009 um 13:44 schrieb Simon Reber:
> 
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I have a problem with my kickstart environment.
> > The kickstart file and the packages are located on a web 
> server and to
> > start the installation, I've created an ISO from isolinux (Source is
> > CentOS 5.4)
> >
> > Everything works very well so far, since I have DHCP available in  
> > almost
> > every network. But now the environment is being extended to an
> > additional DMZ where I won't get DHCP running.
> > But everything is build to support static IP address as 
> well and at  
> > the
> > beginning it was working fine.
> > The system booted from the ISO (mentioned above) then asked my which
> > Interface I want to use for installation (took eth0) and started  
> > looking
> > for a DHCP server to obtain an IP address. Since there was no DHCP
> > Server present, anaconda came up with a mask where I could define  
> > static
> > IP configuration and afterwards configure the selected NIC (IP,  
> > Netmask,
> > Gateway and DNS Server). When I pressed OK it contacted 
> successfully  
> > my
> > kickstart web server and downloaded the kickstart file (activity was
> > logged in the web server log).
> > But as soon as the kickstart file arrived on the server it starts  
> > again
> > determine an IP address form a DHCP server which fails (obviously).
> > Because of this all IP information I've entered before are 
> lost and  
> > the
> > further installation steps are failing (loading stage2.img, etc.)
> > Since this is happening in such an early state I am not 
> able to obtain
> > any log files from anaconda.
> >
> > I know that I can define static information directly during 
> boot (with
> > ip=<ip address>, etc.) But I'd like to avoid this and use the way
> > described above (I hardly remeber that I was successfully 
> using this  
> > in
> > the past)
> > So my question is:
> > 	Does somebody know this behavior? And If yes is there a way to
> > get around this or to make it working?
> 
> network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 10.10.10.XX --netmask  
> 255.255.255.0 --gateway 10.10.10.1 --nameserver 10.10.10.1
Hi Ruediger, the problem is that this stuff is build during installation
in the kickstart file
So I am not able to pre-define this information!

> 
> > If you need my kickstart file, feel free to ask for it. I 
> won't past  
> > it
> > into this mail to keep it simple.
> >
> > Thanks and all the best,
> > Si
> 
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