Determining the interface kickstart will used during the build whenthere a more than one

[T Jackson]

Tobias, 
If you want to boot from a specific device all you
have to do is add "ksdevice=eth0" to the append
section of the pxelinux.cfg file.  

The problem is if you have a machine with multiple
interfaces and you want to build from aspecific one. 
How do you know that interface will be eth0, eth1 or
eth2.  How can you determine which nic will get which
device name?

--- Tobias Speckbacher <tobias at quova.com> wrote:
> Just from recent experience, even when explicitly
> specifying:
> 
> network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0
> 
> I get prompted to select the interface to use.
> So far I haven't had time to research how to work
> around this.
> 
> -T
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> T Jackson
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:10 AM
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> Subject: Determining the interface kickstart will
> used during the build
> whenthere a more than one 
> 
> Does anyone know how to determine which network card
> red hat installer will assign eth1, eth2, etc to
> when
> performing a kickstart installation?  
> Example 
> I have a machine with 3 network cards and I want to
> install Red Hat over the network using kickstart so
> I
> do not have to enter any information.   
> 
> Now I am able to perform the installation using
> pxelinux / dhcp / nfs /ftp when I only have one
> network interface in the machine but when I try to
> build a machine with multiple network interfaces I
> am
> either prompted to select a interface (which is a
> big
> problem when all the interfaces are the same brand
> /model) or the installation falls through to the
> menu
> for.
> 
> Any ideals how I can determine the interface so I
> know
> what parameter to feed the install through the
> “ksdevice” option?
> 
> 
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