[CentOS] Kickstart stops with dialog about which networking device - how to avoid

[Timothy Selivanow]

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:51 -0800, Keith Christian wrote:
> Using a kickstart file that stops with a curses dialog "You have multiple
> network devices on this system.  Which one do you want to install through?"
> 
> The machine being configured with PXEboot has two ethernet interfaces.  What's
> missing from the network entries below?  I'd like this install to proceed
> without asking which ethernet interface.
> 
> PXE begins the install with DHCP, so Kickstart should already know which of
> eth0, eth1, etc. to use.
> 
> Here is the ethernet line in the ks.cfg file:
> 
>     network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
> 
> Any ideas appreciated.
> 
> =======Keith

On the boot line (i.e. where you'd put ks=http://....), add DEVICE=ethX
where X=interfaceNumber.  We've also noticed that adding noipv6 speeds
up some network auto-detection stuff too.


--Tim
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