[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart Difficulties - Networking

[Jeremy Mueller]

Sigh, could help if I can copy and paste correctly...here's the correct line:

--bootproto query --noipv6 --netmask <mask> --gateway <gw> --nameserver <dns1>,<dns2>

-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Mueller
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:48 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstart Difficulties - Networking

Andy,

Try setting your network line to something like:

--bootproto query --device eth0 --bootproto static --noipv6 --netmask <mask> --gateway <gw> --nameserver <dns1>,<dns2>

This should query you for if you want to use DHCP or manually set the ip, then you can tell it to manually set the settings, then it'll fill in all the fields you want, only leaving the IP field for you to fill in.

We found that during the kickstart, if DHCP is available, the install would default back to DHCP, even if you manually configure the IPs.  The "--bootproto query" solved this for us.

--Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Andy Speagle
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:20 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstart Difficulties - Networking

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 08:05 -0500, Daniel Robb wrote:
> Andy,
> 
> I didn’t think this was possible.  From looking at the ks.cfg options 
> documentations, it seems to be that if you do not supply the ip 
> address in the ks.cfg file the installer assumes that the the 
> installation should be done over eth0 via DHCP.
> You could try just supplying the ip address on the boot line (linux 
> ip=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn).
> 
> -Dan

Hey, I'm with you on that one, it has me baffled.  My "network" line in the kickstart consists of the following options (with correct IPs replaced of course):

--device eth0 --bootproto static --noipv6 --netmask <mask> --gateway <gw> --nameserver <dns1>,<dns2>

As you can see, I'm omitting the "--ip <someip>" directive.  What happens in anaconda is that it pops up a box that asks me to configure
ipv4 and ipv6... with ipv6 already disabled, but dhcp selected for ipv4.
I change that to static... and move to the next screen.. .it then shows a network configuration page with all of the data save IP pre-filled.  I pop in the IP I expect the system to configure, and anaconda continues on its merry way.  However, when the system is done, the IP that gets configured is the IP that the system got from DHCP for PXE booting rather than the IP that I supplied.

I'd rather not have to modify anything to get this to work.  I'm trying to make this as admin-proof as possible for installs.  In fact, I wish
ipv4 would be pre-set to "static" as well, since that's what I told anaconda with "--bootproto static" ... but eh... I'll settle for it just using the IP that I told it to.

Thoughts?

-Andy



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