From bcl at redhat.com Mon Jan 9 23:18:16 2023 From: bcl at redhat.com (Brian C. Lane) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 15:18:16 -0800 Subject: Always Prompt for Network Settings In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 05:18:54PM +0000, Eric Graham wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to automate the installation of AlmaLinux 8.7 minimal > using Kickstart and graphical Anaconda. I would like the user to > always be prompted to set networking details. I don't see any options > to do this, so currently my installation runs entirety without > interaction, and the resultant system needs to be configured with > NetworkManager to be usable (since the only networking change made by > Kickstart is setting the system hostname, which I could do without if > necessary). The only other thread I found on this topic suggested a > modification of some Kickstart code back in RHEL 3 which, of course, > has changed drastically by now. Is this possible? Maybe :) It's not really how kickstart is meant to be used though. The right way to do something like this is to write an anaconda plugin or a initial setup plugin (https://github.com/rhinstaller/initial-setup). Some people have managed to get things like this to work in %post but it really isn't supported. Brian -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart