Op 20-04-2007 om 13:04 schreef Michael S. Peek: > The organization where I work, a college campus, has a DHCP server that > will assign all unknown hosts a 10.x.x.x address and route all traffic > from a 10.x.x.x address to their machine registration page. This is a > convenience for students and faculty, who may bring in their new > computers from home, register their machines with networking services, > and then get straight to work. (the trick is that if you have a > 10.x.x.x address then you're not allowed to see anything other than the > registration server, and only after you register will the DHCP server > assign you a 'real' address.) > > But for me, this 'convenience' is a pain. Because all of my hosts use > NIS+NFS+Automount, none of our hosts use DHCP, and therefore none of our > hosts are registered with the DHCP server. This means that whenever I > go to install a host, for which I have a static IP, d-i + DHCP will fail > every time. (It'll wind up getting a 10.x.x.x address and can't contact > anything on the network other than the registration server.) I have no > access to the DHCP server, so I can't change the way it works, or > instruct it to serve my hosts their rightful static IP addresses. > > If I attempt to set up my own DHCP server then I run into a race > condition between my DHCP server and the campus DHCP server. There's no > way to tell d-i which server to contact, so it'll listen to the first > one that it hears back from. > > So as near as I can tell, there is just no way to make this work. Mmm, I begin to understand why the multi-config udebs were created. However, I think this problem^Wchallenche is something that can not solved only by writing program code. I would go talk to the administrator of the registration server. and ask for a directory on the that web server. Assuming the registration server is known as 'rs', and the requested web directory would be 'd-i'. I could boot debian-installer with url=rs, which would be expanded into preseed/url=http://rs/d-i/etch/preseed.cfg See also http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/04/msg00794.html > Thanks for your help though, > Michael You are welcome, Geert Stappers
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