Greetings,

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?

thanks in advance for any guidance,
Kent