Any ideas why this fails?:

[Matt Fahrner]

The other thing to do is get it to kickstart boot one way or another up 
through "stage2.img" and then try to run the script manually on the 
virtual console with a shell prompt. That's how I debugged my "%pre" 
scripts...

			- Matt

Riggs, Ben wrote:
> Good question. I hadn't thought that it might not be in anaconda's path.
> 
> Matt Fahrner wrote:
>> Are you sure "ifconfig" is in your path?
>>
>> Riggs, Ben wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> %include /tmp/network-include
>>>
>>> %pre --interpreter /usr/bin/python
>>> #find-ethN configures network info
>>> import os
>>>
>>> #Determine which ethN interface matches mac address supplied by ldap
>>> network_statement = "network --bootproto=dhcp --onboot=on --noipv6"
>>> pipe = os.popen("ifconfig -a", 'r')
>>> for line in pipe.readlines():
>>>     if '00:e0:81:33:d6:c7' in line.lower():
>>>         network_statement = "".join((network_statement, " --device=", 
>>> line.split()[0].strip(), "\n"))
>>> file = open("/tmp/network-include", 'w')
>>> file.write(network_statement)
>>> file.close()
>>> </snip>
>>>
>>> I can't find anything glaringly obvious. I know the python works. 
>>> When anaconda runs, it still asks for network info manually.
>>>
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