Hi Ray,
Based on my previous response to the list, it seems that you may be right. I'll take a look at that...
thanks & best regards,
kent
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Van Dolson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 3:48 PM
To: Johnson, Kent A (GE Healthcare)
Cc: Tom H; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: SL6.1 kickstart persistent networkmanager prevents unattended install
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 04:37:46PM -0400, Johnson, Kent A (GE Healthcare) wrote:
> I previously tried using --ksdevice when fully specifying the eth0
> but that is a pxelinux format that's rejected by anaconda when using
> media kickstart. I also just removed the kickstart firewall line in
> case that was somehow causing networkmanager to be invoked but no-go.
>
> I can pxeboot install fine but we have cases where must do a media
> (local) install, and unattended, but networkmanager pops up no matter
> I try...
>
> thanks & regards,
> kent
I haven't looked at the necessary bits, but you may need to update
Anaconda to (conditionally) skip this. Creating an updates.img file
for Anaconda is pretty easy and is easy to point to with the updates=
boot option.
You'd probably want to modify Anaconda's kickstart.py ...
Ray
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom H
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 3:14 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: SL6.1 kickstart persistent networkmanager prevents unattended install
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Johnson, Kent A (GE Healthcare)
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry to bother but I've tried to do my homework first, to no avail...
> >
> > I'm kickstarting the standard SL6.1 install DVD from a USB key to
> > provide an unattended install.
> >
> > I've tried everything I can find to try to prevent the networkmanager
> > popup to configure the ethernet interface during the install (occurs
> > immediately after disk partitioning).
> >
> > I've tried many different forms of the kickstart network command to
> > fully configure eth0 or leaving the network line out completely but the
> > nm popup persists. The only way that I've been able to stop the nm popup
> > during the kickstart install is to disable the ethernet hardware in the
> > BIOS! I've read all the RH/SL docs and searched the web far and wide...
> >
> > So, it seems that anaconda starts networkmanager any time that it finds
> > an ethernet device (active or not) whether the kickstart references
> > network or not. I'm not adding any external repos or anything else that
> > would require network. What am I missing?
>
> Untested because I use "ks=http://...": how about "ksdevice=" or "ksdevice=''"?
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