Ooooh, yes, yes, yes!!!!
Thanks a lot! It works!!!
Thanks, thanks a lot!!
Finally, I've done this:
if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 3) != "d-i" {
filename "http://192.168.1.1/pxelinux.0";;
} else {
filename "
http://192.168.1.1/mountpointisodebian/preseed/myfile.seed";;
}
2014-11-13 6:47 GMT+01:00 Geert Stappers <stapp...@stappers.nl>:
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> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 03:00:26AM +0000, Oscar Torrente wrote:
> >
> > | | Hello.
> > I know the typical setting to run a PXE server is the combination of
> > DHCP+TFTP+HTTP/FTP/NFS... servers, but my setting only must consist
> > in a DHCP+HTTP server (both in one machine with ip 192.168.1.1). So
> > my dhcpd.conf has these lines:
> > subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> > range 192.168.1.5 192.168.1.10;
> > option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> > ...
> > filename "http://192.168.1.1/pxelinux.0";;
> > }
> > I use iPXE (http://www.ipxe.org) -which can get pxelinux.0 from a HTTP
> > server- to boot my clients. They see a pxelinux menu with an option
> > to run the installer. Its "APPEND" line is like this:
> > APPEND url=http://192.168.1.1/mountpointisodebian/preseed/myfile.seed
> ...
> > Everythings seems going well during installation until I get a error
> > message like "The installer failed to process preconfiguration file
> > from http://192.168.1.1/pxelinux.0.";
> > I've read in B.2.5 chapter from
> > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs02.html.en that if
> > dhcpd.conf there is a HTTP url, the installer assumes it is the url of
> > a preseed file. I though that appending the "url" preseed parameter
> > this behaviour would be overriden, but it is not!!!! What can I do
> > to tell the installer to forget using the url from dhcpd.conf as a
> > preseed file's url??????
>
> from
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs02.html.en#preseed-dhcp
>
> if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 3) = "d-i" {
> filename "http://host/preseed.cfg";;
> }
>
>
> > I'm really desperated.
>
> I think that you didn't know that there a two DHCP requests during
> a netboot install. One from the bootROM and one from debian-installer.
> ( CDROM (and USB memory stick) installs only have the d-i DHCP request )
>
> Make sure that your d-i client gets
> http://192.168.1.1/mountpointisodebian/preseed/myfile.seed
> from your DHCP server. Then you can avoid
> APPEND url=http://192.168.1.1/mountpointisodebian/preseed/myfile.seed ...
>
>
> > Thanks!!!!
>
> You are welcome. Reporting your milage would be nice.
>
>
> Groeten
> Geert Stappers
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