Kickstart installation with static IP-addresses falls back to DHCP
Issue
When installing a system over kickstart with (unset) static network configuration, the installer does a DHCP request, times out and aborts the installation.
The kickstart contains the following:
network --device=eth0 --bootproto=static --noipv6
On the commandline while booting from the boot.iso:
boot: linux text noipv6 ks=http://satellite.example.com/kickstart/ks/label/rhel5-x86_64-ks
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
- Secured network where no DHCP is available
- Installation over kickstart
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