Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:47:39PM +0100, 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'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. > > Ray Ahhhhh. Im not going daft then. Ill give the patches a go. Thanks everyone for your replies. Dean.