On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:28:05PM +0200, Juan Jose Pablos enlightened us: > Matt Hyclak escribió: > > > > The file should just be linuxboot/misc/hosts, but you need my patch to get > > that file into stage1 so that it's copied to the boot media. Maybe if we ask > > nicely, Juan Jose will commit the change into CVS :-) > > > > :-) > > I saw both patches, but I think that this needs a bit more investigation > on why it does not resolve properly. > if you check the documentation: > "The Unattended server must be reachable with the name "ntinstall"." > > http://unattended.sourceforge.net/step-by-step.php#step3 > > I would like to avoid people adding an ip address and required to > compile the linuxboot. >
An example of the reason I did this is here: http://osdir.com/ml/linux.file-systems.cifs/2005-01/msg00016.html The cifs client on Linux doesn't use NetBIOS (nor WINS, apparently) to resolve names. It seems to rely strictly on DNS. > 1) you can overwrite the Z_PATH to \\x.x.x.x\install > > 2) you can add z_path to the pxelinux.cfg/default > True, and I already do this, but I only put the short name in. My reason for doing so is because I have 2 networks (one private, one public). The private one resolves ntinstall to a private IP and can't always reach the public IP during setup/install time. I didn't think the hosts file was so invasive that putting it there (and the sample hosts file I sent with the previous patch only had 127.0.0.1 defined), but left an option for folks who did recompile the boot disk. In other words, my patch doesn't change default behavior, but makes it a little easier to use a custom hosts file for those who want it. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Register now and save $200. Hurry, offer ends at 11:59 p.m., Monday, April 7! Use priority code J8TLD2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
