Ignoring DHCP, there are three ways to supply an IP address when you'reusing Kickstart to set up machines automatically:

1. put a network line in your Kickstart file. You need to give all ofthe information (--hostname, --ip, --gateway, --netmask, --nameserver)and also use ' --bootproto static '.
2. put the information on the kernel command line, with ip=, gateway=,netmask=, and dns=. Non-DHCP is assumed

There's a famous folk-rule on Usenet and mailing lists to the effectthat a spelling flame usually has at least one spelling mistake itself.There seems to be a related rule on the web, which I will put this way:

Websites that boast about validating often don't.

(The corollary is that a certain amount of people agitating for validweb sites don't have valid web sites.)

Now, HTML validation is certainly picky (arguably morepicky than spelling), but I'd

There's a really simple two-part recipe for failing to create usefulubiquitous services at universities. It goes like this:

1. come up with an important service that should be ubiquitous.
2. fund it by charging its users.

The moment you start charging people for things at a university, youenter into a competition for their money. People start asking 'whyshould we spend money on this?' and 'why should we pay you for this?'and 'is this the best use for this money?'