Bug#276299: netcfg insists on confirming hostname and domainname

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 12:59:05PM +0100, Paul Millar wrote:
> On Saturday 16 October 2004 00:44, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > append
> > 
> >  netcfg/get_hostname=x netcfg/get_domain=x
> 
> This is, unfortunately, not a satisfactory solution as it makes the grub 
> config file machine-specific.

It only looks machine-specific.
All computers can use the same netcfg/get_name (and netcfg/get_domain)
as it will be overwritten by the information from the DHCP server.

pronounce 'netcfg/get_hostname=x' as
 "seen an answer for the hostname question, no need to ask"

> An alternative is to set the debconf priority to critical, but this isn't a 
> good idea as typo's in preseed config files are silently ignored.
> 
> A better solution (IMO) would be to have a
>   netcfg/auto_accept_dhcp  boolean true
> 
> ... but this would require coding.

After discovering limits that are documented in #276726 and #276840
I got an almost automatic install with d-i, the only manual action
were entering root password[1] and quiting aptitude[2]

> Paul.

Geert Stappers

[1] AFAIK is that work in progress.
[2] aptitude is started when 'select manual packages' is selected.