Andrew Elwell wrote: > Hi folks, > > We've just added a new host to our devel cluster and tried to kickstart > with sl5 rolling. (i386) > > All went well, until our local post install script copied the (correct - > using static IP addresses generated from our cluster management utils) > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethN files to the target. > > At some point (spotted on firstboot) these were renamed to > ifcfg-eth0.bak and ifcfg-eth1.bak with default DHCP ones in place as > ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 > > Q: Is this a change in some part of anaconda from the 30x / 4x versions? > if so - does anyone know what part, and how to disable it :-) > > I'd rather not go down the route of adding ip details as part of the > kickstart install. > > > Andrew > Hi Andrew, We didn't make any changes to kickstart in SL3 or 4 from what RedHat released, and currently do not plan on making any changes for SL5. I currently haven't done any kickstarts on 5, but it's possible that something changed. Here is RedHat's online documentation http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/ch-kickstart2.html http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-kickstart2-options.html that might show something I do have to say that I've seen an ifcfg-eth0 get moved to ifcfg-eth0.bak. That was on a virtual system and I was just messing around so it was re-installed a long time ago. But I know I wasn't using a kickstart. I thought it was some virtual machine thing that I was doing wrong (since I was doing several things wrong anyway) Maybe this bears more investigation. When you do a kickstart install, are you installing them using dhcp? Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________