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Bug#1008597: debian-edu-install: Ask for hostname during standalone installation



[ Petter Reinholdtsen, 2022-03-29 ]
> [Mike Gabriel]
> > While testing 11u3 ISO images, I noticed that a standalone Debian Edu  
> > installation does not ask for a hostname. It tries to find a hostname  
> > via DNS/DHCP and falls back to am-<mac>.
> 
> Will it accept the hostname on the boot prompt as
> hostname=some.domain.name?

No; the update-hostname-from-ip script will overwrite the hostname given 
as kernel command line param with am-<mac>, just like it happens with 
'hostname=pxeinstall' for PXE installed systems.

Wolfgang

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