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I am attempting to make a bootable recovery CD using kickstart to skip over the interactive questions. I have been able to use kickstart to pass the language, keyboard, and boot media but I cannot seem to get the skip over network configuration. Anaconda prompts the user if they want to enable the network, I would like to disable the network completely. Is there a way to skip this? I have tried using the nonet option in the isolinux.cfg file and using the network option in the ks.cfg file but the user is still prompted.
Any help would be much appreciated
Last edited by maximusGeek; 05-13-2013 at 02:12 PM.
Reason: spelling
This is what I use for a rescue kickstart config, and it only asks about locating the Linux environment (The rescue environment will now attempt to find...). It does not ask about network, so if you've already figured out how to disable the "Rescue" prompt, add that to what I have here:
I am doing something simmilar. I skip the keyboard, language and location of the rescue image, but it still prompts me with "Do you want to start the network interfaces on this system?". I have tried setting as a static IP as well, but does not seem to work.
ks.cfg:
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
cdrom
network --bootproto=dhcp
Ive using DHCP and static addressing, both cases, it still asks me if I want to enable the network. Tried both unplugged and plugged into the network. Tested that DHCP is working with other systems.
If you actually go through the network prompt, does it pick up an IP address? Maybe it's not supporting your network card or something. Do you see any network devices in the output of the 'dmesg' command?
It does see the network card, it lists the MAC address if I opt to enable the network. It defaults to DHCP. If I include static config in the kickstart file, it does not fill in my configuration. I read that if the asknet option is used, then other network options are ignored. Its like recovery mode is defaulting to the asknetwork option.
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