[cobbler] Can't find /tmp/pre_install_network_config error on kickstart in F18

James Cammarata jimi at sngx.net
Thu Mar 14 17:37:20 UTC 2013


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Bret Wortman <bret.wortman at damascusgrp.com
> wrote:

> I've been trying to troubleshoot this on F18/Cobbler 2.2.3 for two days
> now and could use whatever input anyone might have.
>
> I'm using a modified version of the sample.ks kickstart which works great
> on F17 and, by copying it and changing the repo stanzas is otherwise
> unchagned for F18. I get the above error when booting.
>
> Switch to Ctrl-Alt-F2 and in that console I can confirm that the file
> isn't there. I try the commands in the %pre section that are supposed to
> create it and discover that "ifconfig" isn't in my path. It doesn't seem to
> exist anywhere in the execution environment my system is sitting in at that
> point (or in that console, anyway).
>
> I know the MAC is correct -- is this really a problem in that F18 just
> doesn't have ifconfig available, or is something else amiss?
>
> Thanks!
>

Yes, that is the issue - ifconfig has been removed and ip is the only
command available. A few months ago I patched the snippets to detect which
command was available, so you'll probably want to grab those from upstream.
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