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

Nishanth Aravamudan nacc at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Mar 14 17:42:32 UTC 2013


On 14.03.2013 [13:31:05 -0400], Bret Wortman 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?

I think we changed this "upstream" by using ip. Yes, the FC18 installer
does not have ifconfig present, it's a pretty great change, right?

-Nish



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