[Spacewalk-list] kickstart hostname

[Frédéric SOSSON]

thanks, Colin Coe was talking about an way set hostname at: linux ks=
 line... do you know something about that parameters?

On 28 April 2010 12:00, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> yes i'm look for this possibilité, you know the command at kernel line?
>>
>> On 28 April 2010 09:58, Colin Coe <colin.coe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Choose an interactive install?  You could also provide this on the installer
>>> kernel command line.
>>>
>
> An interactive installer limits the benefits of kickstarting however ^^
>
> This is how I do my static IP install with a defined hostname from a
> kickstart iso....
>
> isolinux.cfg:
>
> label <a_label>
>  kernel vmlinuz
>  append initrd=initrd.img netmask=<netmask> ksdevice=eth0
> dns=<dnsserver> gateway=<gateway>
> ks=http://<spacewalk_server_kickstart_url>
>
> kickstart prescript to process line:
>
> set -- `cat /proc/cmdline`
> for I in $*;
>  do
>  case "$I" in
>  *=*) eval $I
>  ;;
>  esac;
>  done
>
> echo "network --device eth0 --bootproto static \
>       --ip=${ip} --netmask=${netmask} \
>       --gateway=${gateway} \
>       --hostname=${hostname}.<domain> \
>       --onboot=yes --noipv6 \
>       --nameserver=<dns_servers>" > /tmp/network
>
> In the kickstart options do:
>
> %include /tmp/network
>
> >From the iso boot prompt I install with...
>
> <a_label> ip=<ip_address> hostname=<short_hostname>
>
> Replace your values for bits in <> of course....
>
> This set of scripts and options lets me do a static IP install with a
> given hostname for the label in my isolinux configuation...
>
> James
>
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