Greetings, After some digging I think I may have found a bug, let me try to untangle this.
First of all, I run into this issue after I had rebuild the linux boot disk. I needed a updated e1000e driver to support the Intel DQ45CB motherboard so I had to use the e1000e driver from 2.26.28.rc7. Now the fun part, I was able to build the boot CD and I notice a few things. 1) I was prompted for a hostname, this had never happened before 2) I also noticed that unattend.txt had the ComputerName stripped from the [userData] section Here is what I found #1 - install.pl http://unattended.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/unattended/unattended/install/dosbin/install.pl?revision=1.155&view=markup line 928: sub dhcp_settings () reads the file /var/run/dhcp.out line 1044: $u->{'_meta'}->{'ipaddr'} - gets its value from dhcp_settings() #2 - config.pl (see below) sets the hostname in unattend by using _meta->ipaddr #3 - When you boot with boot cd the following links are already created even before I mount \\ntstall\install /opt -> /z/linuxaux/opt /share -> /z/linuxauz/share /var -> /z/linuxaux/var So what is the problem? When udhcpc runs it can't write /var/run/dhcp.out, so there is no _meta->ipaddr set and I can't set my hostname via my site config.pl. So what is the fix ? 1) have udhcpc write to /tmp/dhcp.out and modify the needed files. 2) Don't create the /opt,/share,/var until we actually mount \\ntinstall\install I like option 1 better, since it allows you to change to another virtual terminal and examine the file. Thanks Paul --snip from unattend.txt ---- [UserData] ProductID=xxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxx FullName="Dept. of Computer Science" OrgName="and Engineering" ComputerName=* --snip from site/config.pl----- $u->{'UserData'}->{'ComputerName'} = sub { my $addr = $u->{'_meta'}->{'ipaddr'}; defined $addr or return undef; my $host = gethostbyaddr(inet_aton ($addr)); if (!defined $host) { warn "Unable to gethostbyaddr ($addr): $? $^E\n"; return undef; } my $name = $host->name (); # Strip off domain portion $name =~ s/\.(.*)//; return $name; }; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
