hostname not set during autoinstall

11 Sep 2006

      Hi,

I like to get the hostname passed from DHCP to the client during
autoinstall.
But whatever I do the hostname is set to "linux".
However the IP was set correctly.

Platform is IA64 and OS version SLES 10

A snippet from dhcpd.conf:

ddns-update-style none;
ignore unknown-clients;

group {
        use-host-decl-names on;
        filename "elilo.efi";

        subnet 192.168.72.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
                next-server 192.168.72.72;
        }

        host client02 { hardware ethernet 08:00:69:14:04:5E;
fixed-address client02; }
}

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and from autoinstall.xml:

<networking>
     <dns>
          <dhcp_hostname config:type="boolean">true</dhcp_hostname>
          <dhcp_resolv config:type="boolean">true</dhcp_resolv>
           <domain></domain>
           <hostname></hostname>
     </dns>
...

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Tried several variations with dhcp_hostname/dhcp_resolv also set to
false and <hostname></hostname> removed without success.
Can't figure out what's wrong... can't even find documentation for
dhcp_hostname/dhcp_resolv tags.

Any ideas?
Hartmut

hostname not set during autoinstall

Hartmut Gottwald