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Bug#354339: Always tries to retrieve a preseed file even for not preseeded installs



tags 354339 patch pending
thanks

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:33:47PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > For one thing, my dhcp server setup [1] already uses 'filename' for PXE 
> > netbooting. So it seems that the chosen solution is incompatible with 
> > netbooting which I doubt was the intention.
> 
> No, see the documentation (in the installation manual). It's possible to
> conditionalise the filename to send the url only to the d-i dhcp client
> while sending a regular file for the pxe boot stage.

By giving lines like

    if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 14) = "NetcfgDHClient" {
      filename "http://pierre/di/coco/preseed.cfg";; }
    else { filename "pxelinux.0"; }

to the dhcpd.conf


GSt

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