[TriLUG] Kickstart Question

[Steven Blanchard]

You might be able to create the resolv.conf as the first step in the
post.  That should allow the rest of post to have your nameserver and
search path.

~Steven

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:01:09PM -0400, Roy Vestal wrote:
> Will try. currently, I have the network statement to put in the 
> nameserver and domain/search. Maybe a simple reorg of the file to use 
> IP's in post will eliminate this need.  hmmm...
> 
> Steven Blanchard wrote:
> > I have not tried it with the 'network' statement specifically but
> > usually if you leave a command out of a kickstart it will prompt the
> > user for the information.  Maybe the answer is as simple as removing the
> > 'network' statement?
> >
> > ~Steven
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 04:12:56PM -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
> >>
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