With DCHP ENABLED: I have tried:
Null string: d-i netcfg/hostname string d-i netcfg/get_hostname string Seen false: d-i netcfg/hostname seen false d-i netcfg/get_hostname seen false The only workaround seems to be to remove priority=critical from the kernel command line (annoying, since there is no easy way to automate this short of making your own iso or editing grub.cfg in your tftp netboot server) There is an annoying side effect to this though; d-i netcfg/get_domain is ignored, and the user always has to enter the domain.