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Bug#1008597: debian-edu-install: Ask for hostname during standalone installation



Hi Wolfgang,

On  Mi 30 Mär 2022 10:25:03 CEST, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:

[ Petter Reinholdtsen, 2022-03-29 ]
[Mike Gabriel]
> While testing 11u3 ISO images, I noticed that a standalone Debian Edu
> installation does not ask for a hostname. It tries to find a hostname
> via DNS/DHCP and falls back to am-<mac>.

Will it accept the hostname on the boot prompt as
hostname=some.domain.name?

No; the update-hostname-from-ip script will overwrite the hostname given
as kernel command line param with am-<mac>, just like it happens with
'hostname=pxeinstall' for PXE installed systems.

Thanks for the feedback, I did not yet get around to testing Petters question / hint.

I'd quite favour a change to update-hostname-from-ip that adds a check to the script that finds out wether the machine is on a Debian Edu network or somewhere entirely else.

Definitely, the update-hostname-from-ip should be usable on the home Debian Edu network, but IMHO nowhere else.

Mike

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