Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (70 mails)

["Andrew Laden" <Andrew.Laden@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Andrew Laden wrote:
> > Does this work with DHCP? If you set your interfaces to configure 
> > themselves with dhcp, then will a simple /sbin/ifup $nic have them
get 
> > an IP address also? (I am going back and forth with the idea of
giving 
> > all my servers static IP's or letting them all dhcp. If I let them
all 
> > dhcp, then I can basically use 1 xml for all my machines. If I want 
> > static addresses, then I have to build an xml per machine.)
> >
> 
>   Yes, it works with DHCP or static, basically just uses what 
> AutoYaST configured the nic for at install time.  I realize 
> now I probably just could have done a /etc/init.d/network 
> start || stop to achieve the same thing, I can't remember why 
> I made it more complex.  It's been a while and just works for 
> us.  And at this point DNS is up and configured so that works as well.
> 

So then, I should be able to write a post-install script that

/etc/init.d/network start
Mount nfs share
Copy file over
Do chkconfig voodoo to get it to run when I want in the boot.
/etc/init.d/network stop

Is it that simple. (I'll let you know after I test)

-Andrew
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