On 3/2/21 10:15 AM, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
You can use that parameter on the kernel command line. And thus retain the generic preseed file.On 3/2/21 1:58 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:However, that requires a per-host preseed, where as with kernel command line I can have the same preseed for all my hosts (or at least all hosts in a certain category) and simply just pass in a hostname in the tftpseed (which has to be host specific anyway and for me is already generated by my provisioning system).Am 2. März 2021 09:52:06 MEZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>:The preseed doc[2] suggests the former is behind the (bare) hostname alias. Try setting the latter?Yes, the installation-guide under https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/apbs04.en.html even explicitly states this, indeed:# If you want to force a hostname, regardless of what either the DHCP # server returns or what the reverse DNS entry for the IP is, uncomment # and adjust the following line. #d-i netcfg/hostname string somehost
So perhaps it would be useful to have a like netcfg/hostname_priority flag where one can choose a priority order?
No priority flag required.