Greetings,

Trying to set up a RHEL4 (and 5) kickstart server. Machines will,
after installation, have a static IP and hostname. How does one
impart the hostname and IP information to the installer without
hardcoding it into the ks.cfg file?

I mean, it hardly makes sense to have a bunch of kickstart files --
even one-line %included ones -- when it should be able to determine
from RARP, right?

[Oh, planning this via PXE boot, by the way...]

--*greywolf;

If you've already got PXE booting set up and a kickstart install working, it shouldn't take much to centralize the mapping of MAC to name/IP address in a dhcpd.conf file and serve these to target hosts. This is what happens on our network. One caveat, our hosts have "fixed" IP addresses too, but not technically "static" as they're set to use DHCP. They just get the same response each time since their MAC addresses are mapped in the dhcpd.conf to respective names/IPs. If you actually intend to move these machines away from this DHCP server and need them to know their own addresses (i.e. true static IP) this solution doesn't map well to your setup.

At the boot prompt you can input network configuration
For example: