Yes I do have hostname set. I understand how that would be a prerequisite. -Jared
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael DeHaan Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:12 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: Network setup snippet not great with VNC Jared Hodge wrote: > > So the network setup snippet seems very useful, and I want to keep > using it since I like sticking with the standard way of doing things. > I use a listening VNC server with my setups so I can monitor the > progress from my computer. One thing that I have noticed though is > that when I hacked my own static IP settings together and put them in > the kickstart template the vnc command reported back "VNC: Fedora 10 > installation on host myhost-1" but now that I'm using the network > setup snippet it is reporting back "VNC: Fedora 10 installation on > localhost.localdomain". I'm guessing the VNC option for kickstart is > not smart enough to parse out the include file to determine what the > actual hostname is. Is there a simple way around this? I have 4 > systems reinstalling right now and it would be nice to know which vnc > server corresponds to which system. > > -Jared > Have you set --hostname set in Cobbler? (Now, each interface has a --dns-name, though globally each system record has a --hostname). Seeing you're static, this might matter. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
