static network configuration ask

[Kit Stube]

You are correct.  I have bootproto=static.    At this point, this is what I
have:

text
install
key dfsdfgsdggsdg
lang en_US.UTF-8
langsupport --default en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
mouse genericwheelps/2 --device psaux
skipx
nfs --server 192.168.49.26 --dir
/vol/vol1/vmimages/kickstart/RH5-server-i386
network --bootproto static --device eth0 --nameserver 192.168.49.107--netmask
255.255.255.0
rootpw --iscrypted $1$rGjAQdLQm$LNgsdfsVF/TjfszJB6T
firewall --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enableldap --enableldapauth --ldapserver
ldaps.ourdomain.com --ldapbasedn dc=ourdomain,dc=com
selinux --disabled
timezone --utc America/Chicago
bootloader --location=mbr
repo --name=repo --baseurl=http://repo.ourdomain.com/linux/4/$ARCH  ###
This part is still broken.
reboot

%packages
%include /mnt/config/includes/RHEL5_packages
firstboot

%pre
# nfs mount the config directory so that we can use %include
# in this file to make things cleaner.
mkdir /mnt/config
mount -t nfs 192.168.49.26:/vol/vol1/vmimages/kickstart/configs /mnt/config

%post --nochroot
cp /mnt/config/includes/* /mnt/sysimage/root
chmod +x /mnt/sysimage/root/system_setup.sh

#system_setup.sh used to live here in %post and I will be moving it back in
with a %include rather than copying the file to the host if that will
#work.   For some reason, my hostname still does not get set up in
/etc/sysconfig/network even though I pass hostname, ip, and

Kit




On 8/30/07, Ed Brown <ebrown at lanl.gov> wrote:
>
> It does the reverse lookup  even before it gets the kickstart file,
> and flashes a screen telling you it's doing that, though often that
> goes by so fast you don't see it.  You can also watch for it on alt-F3
> (or 4?) though.  I don't know when it writes /etc/sysconfig/network,
> but it's there in %post without my doing anything.  You do have have
> the 'network --bootproto=static' line in the kickstart file?
>
> -ed
>
>
> Kit Stube wrote:
> > Come to think of it, I have seen the behavior where the system appears
> to
> > have done a reverse lookup of its self and set it's own hostname.  :-)
> > That's perfect.  At what point during the install process does it do
> that?
> >
> > Thanks again for all of the great info everyone.
> >
> > Kit
> >
> >
> > On 8/30/07, Ed Brown <ebrown at lanl.gov> wrote:
> >> To say this another way, it is not necessary to enter hostname as a
> >> boot parameter, assuming the ip address can be resolved.
> >>
> >> Ed Brown wrote:
> >>> hostname won't be set during the %post scriptlet without some help,
> but
> >>> it should be set on reboot just fine.  To set it for the sake of
> >>> commands in %post (for example, if you need to run cfengine):
> >>>
> >>> hostname `grep HOSTNAME /etc/sysconfig/network |cut -d'=' -f2`
> >>>
> >>> But as the above implies, it should already be configured on reboot.
> >>>
> >>> -Ed
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Kit Stube wrote:
> >>>> That worked for the most part. Ed,  your a genious!
> >>>>
> >>>> The only problem now is that it didn't set the hostname.  Is there
> >>>> some way
> >>>> to use something like $hostname in post so I can set all that up?
> >>>> Perhaps that was what Pablo was trying to tell me?    I don't
> >>>> understand how
> >>>> to process /proc/commandline.    Does anyone have an example?
> >>>> I would be greatly appreciative.
> >>>>
> >>>> Kit
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 8/30/07, Ed Brown <ebrown at lanl.gov> wrote:
> >>>>>> boot: ip=blah gateway=blah netmask=blah dns=blah
> >>>>> This is not quite complete.  And actually, we make a custom boot cd,
> >>>>> with multiple targets that contain the common parameters, so all
> >>>>> that's needed at the boot prompt is target, ip and gateway.  You'll
> >>>>> probably need at least this:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> boot: linux ks=http://url_of_kickstart_file ip=... gateway=...
> >>>>> netmask=... dns=...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -Ed
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