Op 16-04-2007 om 21:52 schreef Michael S Peek: > Stephen Frazier wrote: > >It would appear that Michael Peek works in an environment like mine. > >Both windows and Debian machines on the same network. The DHCP server > >belongs to the windows support people and they don't know how to set > >it up for both windows and Debian. > > Bingo! Yes, it does sound familiar. > >What I have done is to create a floppy with a lot of little files > >containing my network definitions and some other configuration > >information. When I set up a Debian machine I place the Debian CD and > >the floppy in the machine. Boot the installer and enter "install > >file=/floppy/name" where name is the file containing the network > >configuration for this machine. It looks like I could set up CD with > >Michael's udeb that I could boot from and have it select the right > >file to do the install. I hope to try this sometime. His udeb could be > >a useful addition to Debian. > > > You're more than welcome to. I'll answer all the questions I can. > > http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~peek/debian/ > > This contains both compiled udebs and the source. From the multi-config.postinst file from that source, I did create the attached HWaddr based preseed shell script. To use it, you must have a web server ( even the most simple HTTP server will do fine ) Put on the webserver, hostname ws, minimal 3 files: * preseed.cfg with at least a line that contains d-i preseed/run string hwaddrbasedpreseed.sh * hwaddrbasedpreseed.sh, the attached script * hwaddr-00-B0-B0-FE-EE-ED.cfg with host specific preseed information in the directory d-i/etch Start debian-installer like this install auto url=ws The 'auto' parameter will postpone the language and keyboard question. And 'url=ws' expands into "http://ws/d-i/etch/preseed.cfg";, in that file is the clue to start the hardware address based preseed script, which gets the hwaddr-00-B0-B0-FE-EE-ED.cfg file. This way you can (re)configure a host based on his hardware address, without access to DHCP server configuration. And even without the hassle of remastering a CD-ROM, without carring a floppy along the installer CD. Cheers Geert Stappers
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