Christian Meissner wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:14:58AM -0800, James wrote:
Is there anyway for me to set the hostname manually on the bootfloppy so it
knows to pull the certain class definitions without a dns record?
afaik you can append HOSTNAME=foobar to grub command line
br
Chris
well that set the hostname alright but it didn't pull the class
definition... i'm a bit confused now.
i set grub to append the ip=:::::dhcp nfsroot=127.x.x.x:/srv/fai/nfsroot
HOSTNAME=TEST
and yeah i changed the line to look like
#! /bin/bash
# assign classes hosts
# use a list of classes for our demo machine
case $HOSTNAME in
TEST)
echo "TEST DHCPC" ;;
# *)
# echo "FAIBASE DHCPC" ;;
esac
(ifclass I386 || ifclass AMD64) && echo GRUB
exit 0
it still tries to pull whatever *) is set to
