Re: About using static config with pxeboot/preseed

[Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>]

Julien Escario <escario@azylog.net> writes:

> Hello,
> I'm trying to configure full automated install.
> The server is booting over pxe, get his dhcp lease and retrieve the preseed file
> over http.
>
> Preseeding is working well but not for the net config : ip address, hostname, ...
>
> After reboot, dhcp is still used and hostname is 'debian'.
>
> Is this a normal behaviour ? No way to use DHCP to get the address for d-i and
> install the server with a static address ?

Probably not easily, but you can use preseed/late_command to overwrite
/target/etc/network/interfaces if you wish.  I use initrd preseeding
with static network config during installation, and that works well.
-- 
Regards,
Feri.