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Note coreos-installer --copy-network
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as noted in review by steve hardy
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russellb committed Jul 7, 2020
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additions can configure additional networking
* If using the RHCOS live ISO/PXE ramdisk environment with the
coreos-installer, use the `nmtui` Network Manager text UI to configure
networking before proceeding
networking before proceeding. Those settings can be automatically propogated
to the installed host, as well.

#### Further Network Customization

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networking configuration via Ignition if the administrator does not want to
follow an interactive configuration process.

The `coreos-installer` also includes a
[`--copy-network`](https://github.com/coreos/coreos-installer/pull/212) option
which can be used to persist whatever network configuration was done using
`nmtui` to the resulting installed host. There is a [dracut
module](https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/pull/346) which will
apply these settings in the initramfs.

These enhancements provide some excellent improvements to early network
configuration capabilities. However, it is currently most beneficial to the
UPI bare metal flow. The IPI bare metal flow will need to do more work to
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