Re: define network in kickstart pre script

If you provide the static networking parameters as options at the 
'boot:' prompt, and have a 'network' line like this in your ks.cfg, 
then the system gets configured appropriately:

network --bootproto=static --noipv6

In my experience, the system is not configured correctly if you 
provide the network parameters in the dialog boxes.  (Don't know if 
this has changed recently, like since 5.0, but it sounds like it 
hasn't from your comments.)

Note that if you use a custom boot.iso with custom syslinux.cfg, you 
can provide common parameters within custom targets (nameserver, 
netmask, method and ks location, possibly gateway), and only have to 
provide the ip, or possibly ip and gateway, at the 'boot:' prompt.

Also, the hostname is not yet configured in the %post environment, but 
if you need it then, you can add this line:
hostname `grep HOSTNAME /etc/sysconfig/network |cut -d'=' -f2`

-Ed


Greg_Swift-S3lNbxCJ4k+9IyArzxoquPIbXMQ5te18@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've looked around for this, and am continuing to look for an example.
>
> At the install prompt when you run 'linux ks=http://website/ks.cfg' and you
> do not have DHCP available you are prompted for network configuration (or
> you can provide via options).  The IP address at this point is strictly for
> the purpose of getting the kickstart file (from what I've experienced).
> Once the kickstart is downloaded the network configuration inside it
> overrides the local system.  My question, since I know you can access the
> network during the %pre script, is can you setup a script in pre that will
> take the IP configuration initially provided for the ks.cfg download, and
> somehow configure the IP configuration for the rest of the process?
>
> DHCP is not an option for our environment.  At the moment, if I can't
> figure this part out I was going to setup a perl script for the purpose of
> parsing the requested url aand handing back a re-written kickstart.
>
> thanks
>
> greg
>
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