Red Hat ENTREPRISE LINUX 5 Installation Manual page 328

Chapter 31. Kickstart Installations
• --noprobe= — Do not try to probe the monitor.
• --vsync= — Specifies the vertical sync frequency of the monitor.
mouse (deprecated)
The mouse keyword is deprecated.
network (optional)
Configures network information for the system. If the kickstart installation does not require
networking (in other words, it is not installed over NFS, HTTP, or FTP), networking is not
configured for the system. If the installation does require networking and network information is not
provided in the kickstart file, the installation program assumes that the installation should be done
over eth0 via a dynamic IP address (BOOTP/DHCP), and configures the final, installed system to
determine its IP address dynamically. The network option configures networking information for
kickstart installations via a network as well as for the installed system.
• --bootproto= — One of dhcp, bootp, or static.
It defaults to dhcp. bootp and dhcp are treated the same.
The DHCP method uses a DHCP server system to obtain its networking configuration. As you
might guess, the BOOTP method is similar, requiring a BOOTP server to supply the networking
configuration. To direct a system to use DHCP:
network ­­­bootproto=dhcp
To direct a machine to use BOOTP to obtain its networking configuration, use the following line
in the kickstart file:
network ­­­bootproto=bootp
The static method requires that you enter all the required networking information in the kickstart
file. As the name implies, this information is static and is used during and after the installation.
The line for static networking is more complex, as you must include all network configuration
information on one line. You must specify the IP address, netmask, gateway, and nameserver.
Note that although the presentation of this example on this page has broken the line, in a real
kickstart file, you must include all this information on a single line with no break.
network ­­­bootproto=static ­­­ip=10.0.2.15 ­­­netmask=255.255.255.0
­­­gateway=10.0.2.254 ­­­nameserver=10.0.2.1
If you use the static method, be aware of the following two restrictions:
• All static networking configuration information must be specified on one line; you cannot wrap
lines using a backslash, for example.
• You can also configure multiple nameservers here. To do so, specify them as a comma-
delimited list in the command line.
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