Bug#586360: re Debian Bug report logs - #586360.

[Teodor MICU <mteodor@gmail.com>]

Hi,

2012/3/29 anthony <afm404@gmail.com>:
> I've just seen your bug on d-i bugtracker.
> I'm having similar issues and wondered how you had got on .
>
> You've probably found out by now on the bootline you can do auto=true url=http  hostname=name domainname=name
>
> It seems to be a chicken and egg thing, it needs dhcp first to get the preseed file. And once that's done debian installer doesn't go back over those options. I fail to see why they even exist except for local media preseed file.
>
> If you found a way round it i'd be very interested to know.

I don't remember exactly but I think I had to give the network
settings twice, on the install line and on the preseed file.

> I'm trying to preseed with name / domain name from the bootline as they get set wrong by default, and because i am url/preseed the IP static settings i want to use get ignored, not even set on reboot. And i have a DHCP server but i want it to use the domainname i specifiy and not the one it finds on the dhcp server.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated, your bug is just about 2 years old, i figure you might have found out what you needed to know by now . :)

At that time I investigated automated installations of Debian but I
gave up due to many reasons, among them being the lack of time to do
many tests and a very low volume of Debian installations. Thus, I
don't have much to add on this subject.

Cheers