Debian Preseed

[Kenneth E. Lussier]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 12:24 -0400, Ed Lawson wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience with debian-installer
> 
> some.
>
>  >Hostname is automatically set to "debian" and the domain
> > portion is left blank.
> 
> Why can't you simply type in the hostname and domain you want?
> 
> Every Debian install I have done has set the
> default hostname to debian, but you simply delete it and type in
> the name you need.  Same with domain name.
> 
> Are you saying you are unable to change the name?  

I'm never prompted for the hostname or domain. I can set them if I put

d-i	netcfg/get_hostname	string foo
d-i 	netcfg/get_domain	string bar.com

in my preseed.txt file, but the the hostname is set to "foo" and the
domain is "bar.com". If I leave the line blank after "string", then I'm
never prompted for them, and I get errors saying that "" is an invalid
hostname/domain. I also tried forcing the installation of etherconf as
part of the install using:

base-config base-config/late_command string apt-get install etherconf

but it installs without going through the configuration settings.
Presumably this is because base-config is still running and has control
over the display. 

> What installer are you using?

I'm using debian-installer and debian-cd to build the images.

Thanks,
Kenny
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