Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 836040
RFE: need interactive network dialogue during kickstart
Last modified: 2012-06-28 09:42:35 EDT
Description of problem: I see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options#asknetwork and I am sad. I have the need to kickstart machines with static IP addresses, but I don't need or want to implement a cgi-based web app to dynamically change what is an otherwise static ks.cfg file, just for one line that contacts the static IP. Everything, and I mean everything, in my kickstart file is golden for all my machines... save the static IP address! Please consider bring this back, or implementing this functionality another way! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F17
You should be able to configure the network using the boot prompt. Take a look at: ip= ipv6= gateway= dns= etc. Is that enough for you?
Interactive mode is not really the prefered plan for the anaconda dracut module so this bug will probably get closed in favour of the dracut's ip= boot option. And I saw the second bug you filled so lets focus on it (#836039) first.
The problem is that asking a user to edit a pxelinux entry to get their static IP address isn't exactly user friendly.