RE: kickstart problems

>I've /never/ seen RHEL/CentOS or any of its predecessors renumber
>ethernet ports on a working system..

Yeah, I have never seen it "re"number either?

>I've seen it number them
>backwards, such that eth0 was the port labeled '1' outside the chassis
>and eth1 was port '0', but it was extremely consistent about this (one
>specific case of this I remember is RHEL2.1 or 3 on a Intel SE7501WV2
>dual xeon board). I've had a pile of different RH linux configurations
>running on various servers for 10 or more years.

Here is a good explanation about this:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=3Den&cc=
=3Dus&taskId=3D115&prodSeriesId=3D254896&prodTypeId=3D15351&objectID=3Dc014=
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