This wishlist bug seems like a pretty small corner case. First let me restate it to make sure I understand correctly.
You want d-i to do a dhcp request but then use the answers to define a static config. Does that sound right? I guess I can understand wanting to do that, maybe you don't want to depend on the dhcp server being up all the time. But if implemented in the way you mention "Do you want to use the dynamic answers you received as static values?" seems like a violation of the nature of DHCP and would hurt more users than it would possibly help. I have a similar use case, I want to use a throw away dhcp assigned address during boot and to load the preseed, but then I want to switch to a static config. I use the preseed_run script idea documented in the d-i manual to cause netcfg to rerun. Then later in the preseed I define the network parameters. http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/apbs04.html#preseed-network This could work for your case, but normally this would then mean you would need one preseed per system, but maybe you could use the early_command or include_command functions to save the dhcp answers and set them? http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/apbs05.html#preseed-hooks I think this bug might be wontfix. -- Matt Taggart tagg...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
