Guest install without DHCP

[Michael DeHaan]

Augusto Castelan Carlson wrote:
> Hello!
>
> My Dom0 has the ip address 10.1.121.201/24 and is not connected to the
> network, because I do not want to be able to reach DHCP server as I
> will not have one in the production network.
> When I try to install a guest with kickstart, it tries to reach a DHCP
> server. Off course the dhcp timed out. I set the ip address
> 10.1.121.210/24 manually and I can see these messages in the console:
>
> DHCPv4 eth0 - TIMED OUT
> ethe0 is not a wireless adapter
> file location:fpt://10.1.121.201/guest.cfg
> trasnferring fpt://10.1.121.201/guest.cfg to a fd
> setting up kickstart
> results of url ks, url ftp:/10.1.121.201//
> setting language to en_US.UTF-8
> need to set up networking
> going to pick interface
> going to do getNetConfig
> dnsservers is 10.1.3.1
> ethe0 is not a wireless adapter
>
> It starts DHCPDISCOVER again. I can ping the muanually configured IP.
>
> Kickstart is configured to setup an static ip address to the guest,
> 10.1.121.202/24.
>
> network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 10.1.121.202 --netmask
> 255.255.255.0 --gateway 10.1.121.254 --nameserver 10.1.3.1
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>   

While kickstart is configured for no DHCP, you also need to indicate 
your network settings in the kernel
arguments to prevent it from DHCP'ing earlier to fetch the kickstart.