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:
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> From: Ahmed El Zein <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 6:23 pm
> Subject: kickstart resolv.conf problem with SL6
> To: [log in to unmask]
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>  > 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.
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>  > 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:
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>  > search <domain>
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>  > 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.
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>  > And help/info in this regard would be much appreciated.
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
> Ahmed