Zack Perry <zack.perry <at> sbcglobal.net> writes:
That's OK. When you do PXE network install, a DHCP server is a mandatory component. Once installed, the system can use a different network interface for production. This is fine.
Figured. That't the current setup.
If your kickstart template has provided all necessary information, then anaconda shouldn't prompt you for anything. There are two ways that you can do:
- Use the kickstart logging option to log everything to a remote logging server
Sounds like a nice option, however this is before the system has any IP addresses so I don't suppose it will be able to syslog remotely :)
- In /etc/cobbler/settings, turn on anamon, and use the anamon snippets in the /var/lib/cobbler/snippets to help you get the installation log
I will look in to this.
Granted, the above logs won't appear until anaconda is started. So, in case like this, I would use tcpdump to figure out what's going on.
It only gets to Anaconda init before trying DHCP, so I doubt either of the above log methods will work. What would you look for in a packet capture? I guess the kickstart file could be sniffed from the wire?
During PXE installation, you do. After installation, if your nodes use static IP addresses, then the DHCP server is out of the picture.
Got it. Thanks again for your help with this.