On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 08:10:27PM +1000, Brett Worth wrote: > Now my network interface information for the domU is in the kickstart > file so when I move forward in the tool there's a message saying that its > trying to determine a network address, presumably via DHCP (I am unable > to put a dhcp server on this network). From the command line I can use > wget against the kickstart file at the URL I'm providing so that's OK. > > I'm obviously overlooking something but its currently got me puzzled. So > how is this supposed to work? Am I supposed to do the network > configuration for the installation somewhere else? The network information is passed with -x "boot parameters" just as if you were booting a CD but wanted to do an unattended network install. I'm using a templatized script, but the resulting cmdline version is the following: virt-install --nonsparse -b xenbr1.246 --vncport=5905 -p \ -l http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/centos/5/os/i386 \ -f /var/lib/xen/images/host05.xvda -s 20G -n host05 -r 256 --vnc \ -x "cmdline ks=http://repo-server/kickstart/host05.cfg ksdevice=eth0 \ ip=X.X.X.X \ netmask=X.X.X.X \ gateway=X.X.X.X \ dns=X.X.X.X -- Fridh