Ray Van Dolson wrote:

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Plant, Dean wrote:

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I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes the installer prompt for disk settings but not for network settings, they default to DHCP. Any idea's how to fix this?

I'm assuming you are using CentOS 5 here. I'm not sure why upstream disabled this feature -- it was very useful to be able to use kickstart with a DHCP IP address initially, but still be prompted for network information during the installer portion later (as it did in RHEL4).

See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401531

In addition, I have an RFE in with Upstream to re-add this feature and I believe it's slated for inclusion in 5.2 with the --bootproto=query option.

The attachment there however:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=291881

patches Anaconda to not skip the network step during installation. I've been using this successfully here to "do what I need" while waiting for the official fix.

You can include this in an updates.img file and have it loaded automatically on installs.

Thank you Ray, worked a treat.

If like me you have never had to mess with the stage2.img file to fix installations issues, below shows what is required.

cd ~ wget http://yourwebserver/centos5-dvd/images/stage2.img mkdir tmp mount -t squashfs -o loop stage2.img ./tmp cd tmp vi ./usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py # comment out dispatch.skipStep("network") at around line 876 or use Ray's patch. mkdir ../new-stage2 tar cf - . | ( cd ../new-stage2/ ; tar xf - . ) cd .. yum -y install squashfs-tools mksquashfs ./new-stage2/ stage2.img.new

Now replace the stage2.img file on the web server with the stage2.img.new file, renamed to stage2.img of course.

Dean.