[TriLUG] Kickstart Question

[Roy Vestal]

Problem is I need it to prompt. There is no DHCP

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 11:48 -0400, Marc Wiatrowski wrote:
> If you aren't doing a network install (nfs, url...) I am pretty sure it
> will completely ignore
> whatever you have or don't have for 'network'
> 
> I'm sure you could script the network start up in your %post via dhcp?
> The part I'm 
> not sure about would be the prompting...
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 16:12 -0400, Roy Vestal wrote:
> 
> > I'm building a kickstart for internal use. I want to force it to use
> > CDROM media but I have a post install that needs to connect external. As
> > this is used for server installs, I want to have the user prompted for
> > network settings but not use the network for the install, i.e. nfs or
> > http. 
> > 
> > The install is autopartition, auto-package selection, auto-"everything"
> > save the network settings. I want the user to put in hostname, IP,
> > netmask, and gateway.
> > 
> > I've tried the following lines but they still just blow right past the
> > network and start the install:
> > 
> > network --bootproto=static --nameserver=10.0.0.1 --device=eth0
> > 
> > network --bootproto=query --nameserver=10.0.0.1 --device=eth0
> > 
> > Ideas? 
> > 
> > TIA
> >