[CentOS] kickstart won't kick-off via network

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:
>Isaac Hailperin wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:42 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>>> Isaac Hailperin wrote on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:45:44 +0100:
>>>
>>>> append initrd=distro/centos5.2/initrd.img ramdisk_size=7494
>>>> ks=http://9.0.0.1/all/profiles/cluto_centos5.2/cnode/ks.cfg
>>> this is not enough, you have to tell PXE about the network, which nic
>>> to
>>> use etc. I think there is a tutorial about doing PXE instalaltions on
>>> the
>>> wiki.
>>>
>> You are right: "ksdevice=eth1" did the trick.
>> Found at
>> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/KickStart
>
>The order of NIC detection/naming at bootup seems to be more or less 
>random as of Centos 5.x.  How do you know which name to choose here?

I cheat and plug both NICs into switch(es) that will provide
DHCP during installation, then sort out which is which once the
install is complete.  It's easy here as our in-house install
server is on a public network, accessible via NAT from the
private NIC so looking at the IP address assigned (public or
private block) eliminates the ping-and-pull-cable test to figure
out which NIC is which.

Bill
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