F8 is getting *really* sysadmin-hostile

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 20, 2007, Olivier Galibert <galibert at pobox.com> wrote:

> You may be interested to know that you can not use a non-predefined
> static ip address if you use kickstart.  Loader2 has dhcp mandatory is
> you use a kickstart file with no ip address given in it.

Actually, it's worse than that.  It uses dhcp *even if* there's a
fixed IP configuration in both the kickstart file and the boot command
line.  Caused me a lot of trouble when I tried to kickstart-install my
home dhcp server :-(

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374271

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