Package: netcfg Version: 1.110 Severity: wishlist For Kali, we obviously wanted to have "kali" as the default hostname. Up to now we just used to add this in preseed.cfg in our installer initrd:
# Change default hostname d-i netcfg/get_hostname string kali d-i netcfg/get_hostname seen false Unfortunately this has bad side-effects such as the impossibility to actually automate a PXE install because the "seen" flag is always reset to false (even if we pass "hostname=kali" on the kernel command line). That's because the preseed in the initrd is evaluated after the preseed for the kernel command line and takes precedence over it. Thus I would suggest to add another preseed_variable "netcfg/default_hostname" that would be used as default value when asking the question for "netcfg/get_hostname". The derivatives could preseed "netcfg/default_hostname" to adjust the default hostname and the end-users still have the possibility to preseed "netcfg/default_hostname" to automate installs. Would this be possible? Cheers, -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
