Static network configuration in RHEL6 kickstart

[Vratislav Podzimek]

On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 12:09 -0500, Vadym Chepkov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In RHEL5 kickstart there was a convenient way to prompt network configuration during installation
> 
> network --bootproto=query
> 
> In RHEL6 and in latest Fedora this option doesn't present. What is the alternative?
> We would really like to be able to configure network parameters during installation, not after, because we want network to be configured properly during the first boot.
> We have server installations so we use only static configuration. It there a way to make anaconda prompt for the network parameters now?
There is no way to do this in kickstart now. But you can use
'asknetwork' boot option to make anaconda prompt for network
configuration. See [1]  for more details.

[1]
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html
section about the 'network' command (search for 'network (optional)'