[sles-beta] network settings for SLES12 installation

[Eugen Block]

Hi all,

I have a question regarding the installation process of SLES12 since  
SP0. I use virt-manager on a Xen host running on SLES11-SP3, but my  
question also refers to installing xen-guests directly via config files.
If I wanted to avoid network setup via dhcp on SLES11 VMs I used the  
"Additional Arguments" in virt-manager, in the xen-config file it is  
the "extra" line, where I used to provide information like  
"Netsetup=-dhcp,all Hostname=<HOSTNAME> Domain=<DOMAIN> Hostip=<IP>  
Nameserver=<NAMESERVER> Gateway=<GW>".
If I use the same syntax with SLES12-SP0/SP1-RC2/SP1-RC3/SP1-GMC, I  
always get into the linuxrc confirmation screen where all my entries  
are preselected (see the attached screenshot), I just have to confirm  
them. So somehow linuxrc knows what it is, but why do I have to  
confirm it?
My colleage helped me and found a syntax where linuxrc doesn't ask for  
this confirmation, but then the settings I have provided aren't stored  
anywhere. So it is just a temporary network configuration to enable  
PXE boot or to provide an autoyast file, is that correct? For  
auto-installations this can be a little annoying, so I wanted to ask  
you guys what's up with that. I'd appreciate any information.

Thanks,
Eugen

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