Kickstart using static IP address

[Pretzlaff Rüdiger]

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

> 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