I do not have a network line at all in the Kickstart - can this be avoided?
Thanks, Menny From: Kevin Wood [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 05 October, 2011 11:28 To: Hamburger, Menny; [email protected] Subject: Re: unattended installation from DVD This came up a while ago. You can try this... Hi Tom et.al. It didn't complain and apparently ignored the ksdevice= then. In any case, the problem has been worked around for now, simply by adding the --activate option to the KS network line. Now, instead of NM popping up an edit query after disk partitioning, it posts a message only before disk partitioning saying "NM is activating eth0" and everything proceeds to work fine completely unattended. Thanks to you and the others for your help and suggestions. I'm really impressed by everyone's willingness to help on the list! Best Regards, kent -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Tom H Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 9:00 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: SL6.1 kickstart persistent networkmanager prevents unattended install On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Johnson, Kent A (GE Healthcare) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I tried adding ksdevice=sdb (my USB ks.cfg key) to the kernel boot line > during installer but it made no difference. Thanks anyway! "ksdevice=" is to specify a NIC not storage device. ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 3:53 AM Subject: unattended installation from DVD Hi, I am trying to migrate our custom CDROM installation from EL5 to EL6.1. I have downloaded the two Everything DVD's and copied install.img, initrd.img, boot.iso and vmlinux to my own DVD directory structure. .treeinfo: [general] family = Scientific Linux timestamp = 1311823917.22 variant = sl6-x86_64 totaldiscs = 1 version = 6 discnum = 1 packagedir = arch = x86_64 [images-x86_64] kernel = isolinux/vmlinuz initrd = isolinux/initrd.img boot.iso = images/boot.iso [stage2] mainimage = images/install.img Anaconda command line: APPEND initrd=initrd.img usb-handoff biosdevname=0 selinux=0 text ks=cdrom: method=cdrom upgradeany first After fixing some deprecated items in ks.cfg, the installation worked OK accept for this annoying issue: No matter what I try put in the command line and inside the ks.cfg, I always get "Enable Network Interface" dialog to select an interface + ipv6 + ipv4 (The machine has several network interfaces). When looking into the anaconda log during installation when the dialog comes up, I see that anaconda is in reposetup stage. I tried to disable the yum update in anaconda.repos.d/sl.repo with no success. The installation worked unattended on EL5, and I really want to keep it that way with EL6. I would really appreciate a tip or two on how to make this work. Thanks, Menny
