Re: Re: Modifying behavior of netcfg in debian-installer

2020-05-30 Thread Daniel De Lellis
Thanks, but that isn't really my question. Yes, we've looked at completely overhauling our existing imaging infrastructure to avoid a bug with DHCP autoconfiguration edge cases. That may be the route we go, but that is not a trivial amount of work. The debian-installer FAQ declares that it was de

Re: Modifying behavior of netcfg in debian-installer

2020-05-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 29 mai 20, 17:24:54, Daniel De Lellis wrote: > > I am part of a team who manages a very large production cluster with very > little hardware consistency, especially when it comes to network > configurations, and we support multiple debian-based distros and versions > with local mirrors. We

Modifying behavior of netcfg in debian-installer

2020-05-29 Thread Daniel De Lellis
Hello, tl;dr: I want to add a script to be executed to the initrd used in pxeboot to execute either in the case of DHCP autoconfig failing, or to subvert and bypass the existing DHCP method entirely. I would like to do this by replacing or modifying installation steps pertaining to configuring net