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providing a static IP/Netmas/Gateway + location of a preseed file at boot prompt.



Hi guys,

I would like to install my Debian machines with the Pressed D-I feature.

At this moment, I dont have a decent DHCP/BootP server yet, and waiting for this to be achieved, I want to manually provide the IP address at the boot prompt.

I already use it on others distributions install, but I miss the right syntax on Debian.

What I want is to issue something similar to

[...] ip=xxxxx netmask=yyyy gateway=zzzzz preseed/url=http://host/preseed.cfg


My guess, reading the documentation is I cant directly put some preseed parameters in the boot parameters.
What I want would be:

[...] netcfg/get_ipaddress=92.168.1.42 \
      netcfg/get_netmask=255.255.255.0 \
      netcfg/get_gateway=192.168.1.1 \
      preseed/url=http://host/preseed.cfg


Am I right?


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