[CentOS] kickstart won't kick-off via network

Tue Feb 3 17:17:15 UTC 2009
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Isaac Hailperin wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:42 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>> Isaac Hailperin wrote on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:45:44 +0100:
>>
>>> append initrd=distro/centos5.2/initrd.img ramdisk_size=7494
>>> ks=http://9.0.0.1/all/profiles/cluto_centos5.2/cnode/ks.cfg
>> this is not enough, you have to tell PXE about the network, which nic
>> to
>> use etc. I think there is a tutorial about doing PXE instalaltions on
>> the
>> wiki.
>>
> You are right: "ksdevice=eth1" did the trick.
> Found at
> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/KickStart

The order of NIC detection/naming at bootup seems to be more or less 
random as of Centos 5.x.  How do you know which name to choose here?

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