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Bug#848597: preseed: handling non-preseed files



On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:05:45AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Sunday 18 December 2016 23:56:30 Geert Stappers wrote:
> > The DHCP bootfilename in the second request, the d-i request,
> > should point to a preseedfile ...
> 
> For this is needed to configure DHCP in such way (that for different 
> DHCP clients it returns different response).

Yes. (see above)


> And for example qemu does not support it.

I think it does[1]. And if not, use qemu with other network options.

Please do document your solution to this (bug)report.



Groeten
Geert Stappers
[1] IIRC is QEMU using dnsmasq as DHCP server. Dnsmasq can do
  "if DHCP_vendor_class == "d-i" then reply_special()"
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