On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Johnson, Kent A (GE Healthcare) <kent.john...@med.ge.com> wrote: >>> >>> Sorry to bother but I've tried to do my homework first, to no avail... >>> >>> I'm kickstarting the standard SL6.1 install DVD from a USB key to >>> provide an unattended install. >>> >>> I've tried everything I can find to try to prevent the networkmanager >>> popup to configure the ethernet interface during the install (occurs >>> immediately after disk partitioning). >>> >>> I've tried many different forms of the kickstart network command to >>> fully configure eth0 or leaving the network line out completely but the >>> nm popup persists. The only way that I've been able to stop the nm popup >>> during the kickstart install is to disable the ethernet hardware in the >>> BIOS! I've read all the RH/SL docs and searched the web far and wide... >>> >>> So, it seems that anaconda starts networkmanager any time that it finds >>> an ethernet device (active or not) whether the kickstart references >>> network or not. I'm not adding any external repos or anything else that >>> would require network. What am I missing? >> >> Untested because I use "ks=http://...": how about "ksdevice=" or >> "ksdevice=''"?
> I previously tried using --ksdevice when fully specifying the eth0 but that > is a pxelinux format that's rejected by anaconda when using media kickstart. > I also just removed the kickstart firewall line in case that was somehow > causing networkmanager to be invoked but no-go. > I can pxeboot install fine but we have cases where must do a media (local) > install, and unattended, but networkmanager pops up no matter I try... When you write "--ksdevice" it looks to me like you mean that you're adding it to the "network..." line in ks.cfg. What I meant was to try to add "ksdevice=" or "ksdevice=''" as a kernel argument when you add "ks=hd:...".
