Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (59 mails)

[Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx>]

On Freitag, 11. Januar 2008, chrroe@xxxxxx wrote:

> 1. DHCP-Server under SLES9 SP3
> 2. DNS via Active Directory under Windows 2003 Server
> 3. PXE and Installationsserver for Autoyast under SLES9 SP3
> 4. various Destination Machines
> (3. und 4. under VMware ESX 3)

> The problem is, that in the first part of the AutoYast installation (when
> the RPMs are installed) the new machine knows its IP adress but not the
> Computer Name.
> Only after the reboot when the second part of the installtion starts, the
> hostname is set correctly.

Steffen, I think this is an issue since ages isn't it?

> I have identified 3 RPMs so far which need the hostname in the first part
> of the installation (aaa_base, postfix and a custom made one).

that can't be true. I do pxe/DHCP installations all the time and aaa_base 
never had any problems during the installation.

> For testing, I addded the hostname to
>
> <hostname>testhost</hostname>
>
> and set
>
> <dhcp_hostname config:type="boolean">true</dhcp_hostname>
>
> to false, and then the hostname was "ok" also in the first step of the
> installation, and all RPMs are installed as expected.

that's hard to believe actually. The <networking> section is not evaluated 
by autoyast in the first stage. Whatever you do there, it can't have any 
influence in stage 1.


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