Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (71 mails)

[Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 22 February 2008, Hans-Joachim Ehlers wrote:

> i just would like to know what the option really does and what not.
> The reason i ask is that i would like to keep hostname and ip from the
> network boot process provided by dhcp. Thus after the final installation
> the network configuration is static and does not depends on dhcp any
> more.

the config will not change from DHCP to static configuration.
If you had DHCP during installation, DHCP it is in the running system too.
If you had static configuration, then a static NIC configuration will be 
done.

> Also i would like to know if this function will keep ALL network
> configuration ( dsn server, gateway and what soever ) or can the
> autoinst.xml have still some network options.

mixing <keep_network...> with "real" XML network configuration for the same 
interface is not defined. Maybe it works, maybe not.


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