Hello, Debian-Installer can get its preseed information from a webserver. You append preseed/url=http://webserver/di/hosta.cfg during boot. For hostb you would add preseed/url=http://webserver/di/hostb.cfg. And when another host has to be installed, you have again both work on server side (creating 'hostfoo.cfg') and client side, (appendig hostfoo.cfg ) To get at the client side all the same, I wrote a CGI script which is at http://www.stappers.nl/gst/diM/dim-mux all clientsss append preseed/url=http://webserver/cgi-bin/dim-mux The script transforms the IP address of the install client into a directory name, from where it transmits D.I. seed information. It assumes proper name resolving. So when you administrate subdomain.domain.tld. where you have hosta.subdomain.domain.tld and hostb.subdomain.domain.tld, you will have under the webserver DocumentRoot directory the files tld/domain/subdomain/hosta/di.seeds and tld/domain/subdomain/hostb/di.seeds. For hostfoo you have to create tld/domain/subdomain/hostfoo/di.seeds but nothing extra at client side. HTH, at least usefull for someone else Geert Stappers
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