>>> On 2/13/2009 at 1:35 PM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > Agreed, but a manually set MAC address is not *needed* on ANY platform. > EVERY nic has burned-in MAC that can be used.
You're assuming that the installer uses that information to set the MAC address. I don't know that to be true. > Does SLES install on Intel > prompt for MAC address, too? The installer doesn't prompt for any information on any platform other than System z until after the initial installation is done and the system rebooted for phase 2. They don't have to prompt until then because they have direct access to the installation media. For those cases where you want to do a network install, they either depend on PXE booting (boy wouldn't it be nice to have that working on System z), or the isolinux program prompts for whether you want to use dhcp, or a static address. In both cases, you need to tell it which interface you want to use. So, in essence, yes. In the ase of System z, no interfaces are activated until you tell it which one you want. If you don't like the way that's done, I know IBM has access to our feature request system FATE. :) -snip- > Are you trying to tell me my shoelaces are untied? :-) Why does the > source of a parmfile dictate the parameter names? I'm just surprised that > it isn't HWaddr= as I would expect it to be on all platforms for any > ethernet adapter. Because that code was written specifically to support the mainframe and only the mainframe, so they used parameter names that reflected that. Go bang on their door in the middle of the night to complain. :) Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
