On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 at 11:52am, Karl R. Balsmeier wrote

Is it really true that you can use the above command line to give an address for the machine to use in seeking out a kickstart file on the network? I tried it a few times last night an looked for a very long time for examples of this syntax, and found none.

yum -y install anaconda less /usr/share/doc/anaconda-10.1.1.46/command-line.txt . . . ip=<ip> IP to use for a network installation, use 'dhcp' for DHCP.

netmask=<nm> Netmask to use for a network installation.

gateway=<gw> Gateway to use for a network installation.

dns=<dns> Comma separated list of nameservers to use for a network installation.

Hey, someone just told me yesterday that I can give my machine an initial IP address, gateway, dns server, and netmask via command line like this:

linux ks=http://www.mydomain.com/kick.ks ip=192.168.1.5 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.1 dns=192.168.1.10

Is this true? Is the syntax wrong or right?

From what I understand, the syntax you mention above will only assign

the network information to that host for the duration of the kickstart. It will not permanently assign that info to the kickstarted machine.

I think what you are looking for is something inside your ks file, something like this:

network --bootproto=static --ip=192.168.1.51 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=192.168.1.254 --nameserver=192.168.1.1 --device=eth0 --hostname myhost.home.org

If so, and I call my kick.ks file and it has install cdrom

it'll pull the files from the CD but won't launch the CD install

right?

I just want to initiate a kickstart where the systems get their drive partitioning info, IP addressing & hostname attributes, and minimal install packages, from the kickstart file.

Yep, that's right.