Version: 1.41 Package: network-preseed Severity: wishlist When creating a enterprise system to automatically install machines using PXE and debian-installer, it would be useful if the network-preseed package would provide some information about the hardware being installed when fetching the preseed file. This could be made optional, to not provide this information if such "information leak" is unwanted.
A similar feature is available in the RedHat/Fedora installer Anaconda, where it is enabled using the kssendmac kernel argument during boot. This causes the installer to include HTTP headers like this when requesting the kickstart file: X-RHN-Provisioning-MAC-0: eth0 00:1A:A0:A0:AC:AC This allow a web service to be set up to serve different kickstart files depending on the MAC address of the client. A limitation with only providing MAC address is that you need to register a machine up front to know if it got LAN console or any other special hardware that need adjustments to the installation setup. I would like d-i to do something similar, but not only provide the MAC address(es). I would also like the output from DMI and the PCI device list. The output from these dmidecode and lspci commands illustrate what I would like to have included in the HTTP request to allow me to use it to adjust the content of the preseed file: dmidecode -s chassis-type dmidecode -s baseboard-manufacturer dmidecode -s baseboard-product-name dmidecode -s baseboard-version dmidecode -s system-manufacturer dmidecode -s system-product-name dmidecode -s system-version lspci -n -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flvcloapja....@login2.uio.no
