CentOS - Apr 2008 - Kickstart network settings problem -SOLVED

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:47:39PM +0100, Plant, Dean wrote:
>> I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and
>> networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes
>> the installer prompt for disk settings but not for network settings,
>> they default to DHCP. Any idea's how to fix this?
> 
> I'm assuming you are using CentOS 5 here.  I'm not sure why
upstream
> disabled this feature -- it was very useful to be able to use
> kickstart with a DHCP IP address initially, but still be prompted for
> network information during the installer portion later (as it did in
> RHEL4). 
> 
> See:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401531
> 
> In addition, I have an RFE in with Upstream to re-add this feature and
> I believe it's slated for inclusion in 5.2 with the --bootproto=query
> option.
> 
> The attachment there however:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=291881
> 
> patches Anaconda to not skip the network step during installation.
> I've been using this successfully here to "do what I need"
while
> waiting for the official fix.
> 
> You can include this in an updates.img file and have it loaded
> automatically on installs.
Thank you Ray, worked a treat.

If like me you have never had to mess with the stage2.img file to fix
installations issues, below shows what is required.

cd ~
wget http://yourwebserver/centos5-dvd/images/stage2.img
mkdir tmp
mount -t squashfs -o loop stage2.img ./tmp
cd tmp
vi ./usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py # comment out
dispatch.skipStep("network") at around line 876 or use Ray's
patch.
mkdir ../new-stage2
tar cf - . | ( cd ../new-stage2/ ; tar xf - . )
cd ..
yum -y install squashfs-tools
mksquashfs ./new-stage2/ stage2.img.new

Now replace the stage2.img file on the web server with the
stage2.img.new file, renamed to stage2.img of course.

Dean.

In article <2181C5F19DD0254692452BFF3EAF1D6803940E22 at
rsys005a.comm.ad.roke.co.uk>,
Plant, Dean <dean.plant at roke.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> If like me you have never had to mess with the stage2.img file to fix
> installations issues, below shows what is required.
> 
> cd ~
> wget http://yourwebserver/centos5-dvd/images/stage2.img
> mkdir tmp
> mount -t squashfs -o loop stage2.img ./tmp
> cd tmp
> vi ./usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py # comment out
> dispatch.skipStep("network") at around line 876 or use Ray's
patch.
hmm, isn't this editing the file on a read-only file system?
> mkdir ../new-stage2
> tar cf - . | ( cd ../new-stage2/ ; tar xf - . )
I suspect here is where you need to cd ../new-stage2 and edit kickstart.py
> cd ..
> yum -y install squashfs-tools
> mksquashfs ./new-stage2/ stage2.img.new
> 
> Now replace the stage2.img file on the web server with the
> stage2.img.new file, renamed to stage2.img of course.
Cheers
Tony
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Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article
>
<2181C5F19DD0254692452BFF3EAF1D6803940E22 at
rsys005a.comm.ad.roke.co.uk>,
> Plant, Dean <dean.plant at roke.co.uk> wrote: 
>> 
>> If like me you have never had to mess with the stage2.img file to fix
>> installations issues, below shows what is required.
>> 
>> cd ~
>> wget http://yourwebserver/centos5-dvd/images/stage2.img
>> mkdir tmp
>> mount -t squashfs -o loop stage2.img ./tmp
>> cd tmp
>> vi ./usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py # comment out
>> dispatch.skipStep("network") at around line 876 or use
Ray's patch.
> 
> hmm, isn't this editing the file on a read-only file system?
Oops......yes, not going to do much good editing the ro file system!

Sorry.
> 
>> mkdir ../new-stage2
>> tar cf - . | ( cd ../new-stage2/ ; tar xf - . )
> 
> I suspect here is where you need to cd ../new-stage2 and edit
> kickstart.py 
> 
>> cd ..
>> yum -y install squashfs-tools
>> mksquashfs ./new-stage2/ stage2.img.new
>> 
>> Now replace the stage2.img file on the web server with the
>> stage2.img.new file, renamed to stage2.img of course.
> 
> Cheers
> Tony