You can use DNS names in the script sections of the kickstart. It's documented in the TUV's 6.0 manuals. Don't forget to use -o nolock if you are mounting NFS.
On 04/05/2011 04:28 AM, Ahmed El Zein wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: Ahmed El Zein <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 6:23 pm Subject: kickstart resolv.conf problem with SL6 To: [email protected] > > Dear SL users,I am testing SL6 and my kickstart scripts are failing. Specifically wgets are unable to resolve the hostname of the spacewalk server. > > > I took a look and both /etc/resolv.conf and /mnt/sysimage/etc/resolv.conf are missing the nameserver line. They both just have a single line: > ---- > search <domain> > ------ > > > These kickstart scipts work just find on my Centos 5.5 systems, so I am not sure if this is a SL6 issue or some change in the kickstart options that I am not aware of. I have looked but I can't find any relevant difference between the RHEL5 and RHEL6 kickstart doco. > > > And help/info in this regard would be much appreciated. > > A quick follow up; After some more testing I noticed that when anaconda first runs the resolv.conf file is fine. By the time the pre script runs the resolv.conf is just the one line as I described it. Thanks, Ahmed
