Hello everyone,
I need to do a Red Hat 5.1 installation over the network, but without using PXE
or DHCP. My server has multiple NICs. I want to be able to specify which NIC
the installation is going to take place over.
So in my boot loader config file, I set "ksdevice" to the NIC I want to use.
DEFAULT default
LABEL default
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img nokill ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg ksdevice=00-1C-C4-DE-75-8E
network dhcp=static
In my Kickstart file, I'm required to, once again, specify a device for my boot
NIC, only this time I can't use the MAC address.
network --bootproto=static --device=eth0 --ip=... --netmask=...
--hostname=... --gateway=... --nameserver=...
For some reason, it has to be a device name (e.g. eth0, eth1, etc) and cannot
be a MAC address. I have no idea up front what device name is going to be
associated with the MAC address.
If I specify a MAC address for "ksdevice=" in the boot loader config file and
then specify the wrong device name for "device=" in the kickstart file, the
installation will fail.
I'm not sure why we need to specify "ksdevice=" if "device=" is going to take
precedence.
Is there a way that I can tell "device=" the MAC address of the NIC I want to
use instead of the device name? I need to install many systems at once for
which I have the MAC address I want to use, but I have no idea what device name
is going to be assigned by the Operating System.
Thank you.
Rigoberto
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