On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 05:06:23PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Geert Stappers wrote: > > The sane defaults come from domain name servers in the network. > > > > > Please make it possible to surpress these questions. > > > > For those who use "preseed/url=http://goldserver/seeds/ahost.txt"; > > > > ( "preseed/file=/hd-media/ahost.txt" users can avoid the confirm ) > > You can still pass the same parameters to netcfg at the command line if > you're doing network preseeding (unless you run out of kernel command > line). > > I don't really think this is a bug in netcfg. Prompting for the hostname > is the correct behavior in general. And I've had no problem stopping it > from prompting by using preseeding.
I have _not_ stopped it yet, with this <patch> --- bd.text 2004/10/12 21:18:57 1.9 +++ bd.text 2004/10/14 15:42:40 @@ -65,8 +65,10 @@ # Note that any hostname and domain names assigned from dhcp take # precidence over values set here. However, setting the values still # prevents the questions from being shown even if values come from dhcp. -d-i netcfg/get_hostname string bd -d-i netcfg/get_domain string gst.stappers.nl +d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname +d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain +# don't try to be smart ;-) use the unassigned names + # Disable that annoying WEP key dialog. d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string </patch> It still insist on to confirm host & domain name during preseed/url & DHCP install Geert Stappers
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