package netcfg tag 610526 +moreinfo tag 610526 +unreproducible thanks Hi Dennis,
I'm having some trouble reproducing your bug report. Here are the exact steps I took: 1) Download the mini.iso from http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/20090123lenny8/images/netboot/ (other mirrors should have the same; md5sum is 1f497d52bb97c03810d3e87d8ecf5d94) 2) Boot the installer ISO in a KVM VM 3) At the graphical isolinux boot screen, press TAB and add 'hostname=basic' to the end of the command line (I can't use priority=critical because I need to set a local Debian mirror, and auto=true just asks for a preseed file -- which I don't have because you haven't provided it) 4) Manually configure the network (I disabled my DHCP server so that it wouldn't provide a hostname) with an IP address that doesn't reverse resolve (to avoid hostname being overridden via rDNS) 5) When it asks to configure the mirror, drop into a console and verify that the temporary environment has the right hostname with cat /etc/hostname 6) Let the installation proceed, automatically partitioning the disk and setting up some dummy users 7) When it comes to installing grub, drop back to a console and verify that the target environment has the right hostname with cat /target/etc/hostname 8) Complete the install, reboot, note that the booted system has the correct hostname. Now, I know that a number of things are different between your report and my method of reproduction, but they *should* (big emphasis there) be irrelevant to how the hostname is preseeded. Obviously one of them isn't irrelevant, so we need to work out what it is. Things to check: * The kernel and initrd you're booting with; can I get the md5sums of them and where you got them from? * Booting without a preseed file... it's possible that your preseed file is doing something hinky, so if you *must* test with a preseed file, we'll need a copy of it. * Dropping priority=critical for the purposes of testing would be good, too, to keep things consistent and to rule it out (although early testing showed that /etc/hostname had the right value in it). Thanks, - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
