Plant, Dean wrote: > James Pearson wrote: > >>Plant, Dean wrote: >> >>>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 think you need to have the network settings defined - something >>like: >> >>network --bootproto static >> >>If you don't give it an IP address (with the --ip option), then it >>will prompt for it. This is what I do for NFS installs - as my >>netmask, gateway and nameserver addresses are static, I also give >>these on the network line. >> > > > Does not work, still defaults to DHCP with no prompt. Also if it makes > any difference im using v5.1. > > I have tried with the 2 network lines shown below in the kickstart file, > with and without interactive variable. Still no network configuration > screen. :-( Hmmm, works OK for me with CentOS 4.X - however, I used a hacked version of anaconda - one of my hacks is to set 'netDev.isDynamic' to 0 in loader2/loader.c i.e. make static IP the default ... however, I thought this was for non-kickstart installs only ... but may be it isn't. James Pearson