On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 11:17 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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? In order to avoid this, you can use the "ksdevice=bootif" to use the interface from which the system booted... -I