Hello there, I solved the problem with empty $DOMAIN when booting from CD instead of NFS: Just give network some more time to come up.
E.g. by adding a confdir.DEFAULT.source:
n=0
until [ $n = 20 ]; do
# Is there a NIC up that contains the letters 'eth'?
# Yes? Go Ahead! - No? Just wait a bit (up to 10 seconds)
[ $(ip link show up | grep eth | wc -l) = 0 ] && { sleep .5; } || break ;
n=$[$n+1]
done
Christian Meyer
