How to use kickstart when I have 2 network card

[Shabazian, Chip]

We kickstart servers with multiple NIC's every day.  One thing you need
to be aware of is that RHEL 4 and 5 enumerate the bus differently than
RHEL 3, so a NIC that was eth0 in RHEL 3 may no longer be eth0 when
building the exact same machine with RHEL 4 or 5.  If the NIC's are on
the same bus, then the order doesn't change (such as with the dual
embedded NIC's on the HP DL servers), but if they are on different
busses (this happens to us when there is another NIC in a PCI slot in
addition to the embedded NICs), the order will be different in RHEL 3
than in RHEL 4 or 5.
 
ksdevice=mac_address will resolve this issue for retrieving your
kickstart file, but you will need to make sure that you have the right
ethX device in your kickstart file.
 
Chip Shabazian
VP ; Sr. Consultant - System Engineering
Bank of America
E&O OS Services -- Linux
e: chip.shabazian at bankofamerica.com
p: 925 692-7000
 

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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:38 AM
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Subject: Re: How to use kickstart when I have 2 network card


Use ksdevice=eth(x). Other useful options are:

ip=192.10.10.10 - statically set ip
netmask=255.255.255.0 - statically set netmask
dns=10.10.10.10 - statically set dns
gateway= 10.10.10.10 - statically set gateway address

This way you don't even need DHCP to set up a machine :)


On 4/26/07 2:21 AM, "Zheng, Shaohui" <shaohui.zheng at intel.com> wrote:



	Hi all
	       I meet problems when I use kickstart to do a full
automation installation. I try to install the OS from a NFS server, all
the ISO files and kickstart configuration files are in network. It works
well if we have one network card only, but if some machine have 2
network card, it can not do it automatically. The kickstart manual says
that if we have two network card, we must put the kickstart
configuration file in local file system. Does it mean we do not have any
other solution if we put the configuration file in network? If you know
how to do it, would you please tell me, your suggestion is helpful for
me, thanks so much.
	 
	Shaohui
	Best Regards
	
	
	
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