Re: Preseed installation: definition of host/domain names

2019-07-31 Thread Polar Bear
Hello, progress report on the issue resolution... I have found that there are a several cases related to the issue with installation run from netboot (DHCP-PXE): Case A Requirements: New installed system should obtain hostname and domain from DHCP/DNS server during installation process without p

Re: Preseed installation: definition of host/domain names

2019-07-31 Thread Polar Bear
Hi, modifying required block of preseed file to following, Debian intaller still asks to confirm hostname and domain # Any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take precedence over # values set here. However, setting the values still prevents the questions # from being shown, even if valu

Re: Preseed installation: definition of host/domain names

2019-07-31 Thread Polar Bear
Hello, please find bellow an examples for "Buster" (Stretch, Jessie) https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/example-preseed.txt https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/example-preseed.txt https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/example-preseed.txt Andy Andy On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:39 PM Polar

Preseed installation: definition of host/domain names

2019-07-31 Thread Polar Bear
Hello, can somebody explain how to configure preseed file so that auto installation picks up the host and domain name from DHCP server (DNS server). This question was 'rised' earlier on StackExchange https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/106614/preseed-cfg-ignoring-hostname-setting Situation: