On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:02:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
So, here's how it's currently implemented instead:
if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 3) = d-i {
filename http://dragon/~joey/preseed.cfg;;
}
The emitted string is NetcfgDHClient ( don't d-i )
ISC DHCP
While I prefer the way suggested here of using a new option for
the preseed file, our current implementation in d-i instead overloads
the filename option.
I tried to get it working as shown in this bug report, using
dhcp3-server. I removed the vendor-class-identifier test for simplicity,
so I
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 15:15 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Phil Blundell wrote:
You're right that a preseed file would also allow me to set the mirror
location during install, but that would be slightly more cumbersome from
my point of view. I don't really want to get into building customised
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 03:15:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
I've wanted for a while a way to let dhcp servers broadcast a preseed
file (either content or url). If you can point me at a way to make a
dhcp server do that and show me what it looks like to a dhcp client,
then the rest of the
Quoting Phil Blundell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: debian-installer
Version: sarge
Severity: wishlist
We have a local mirror of the Debian archive on our office network.
It'd be great if there was some option I could set in my DHCP
configuration to tell the installer about this mirror,
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 10:54 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
I may be wrong but I think that passing information about the Debian
mirror is not DHCP job.
This information can be preseeded using the normal preseed mechanism,
I think this is pretty enough for any kind of automation.
In my
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Quoting Phil Blundell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: debian-installer
Version: sarge
Severity: wishlist
We have a local mirror of the Debian archive on our office network.
It'd be great if there was some option I could set in my DHCP
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:24:15 +0100, Phil Blundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ultimately, in fact, I'd like a way for a running Debian system to
update its /etc/apt/sources.list ... so that I don't have to edit
sources.list on every machine if the mirror location changes.
Isn't this what rsync(1)
Phil Blundell wrote:
You're right that a preseed file would also allow me to set the mirror
location during install, but that would be slightly more cumbersome from
my point of view. I don't really want to get into building customised
CD images, so in order to make it just work without manual
Package: debian-installer
Version: sarge
Severity: wishlist
We have a local mirror of the Debian archive on our office network.
It'd be great if there was some option I could set in my DHCP
configuration to tell the installer about this mirror, rather than
having to enter information manually and
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