From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 12 16:42:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D3016A420 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:42:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif2-3-1-cust208.cdif.cable.ntl.com [82.31.78.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F7A43D45 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:42:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from fenrirw.private.submonkey.net ([192.168.10.23]) by shrike.submonkey.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1F8KIu-000LmI-IF; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:42:32 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20060211043020.GA27461@rescomp.berkeley.edu> References: <20060211043020.GA27461@rescomp.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-2-394073727" Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ceri Davies Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:42:27 +0000 To: Christopher Cowart X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.1.1 (Tiger) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scripting sysinstall for pxeboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:42:33 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-2-394073727 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On 11 Feb 2006, at 04:30, Christopher Cowart wrote: > On a not-a-show-stopper note, is there any way to get around > specifying > the hostname and/or net device? I'd rather not specify the hostname so > that I can have one generic script for many machines. Further, what if > a some other machine has a different kind of NIC? By hardcoding these > values into install.cfg, the solution becomes much less maintainable. > Why can't it obtain the hostname from DHCP? Any thoughts on this? Net device, I think you're out of luck. As for the hostname, if the DHCP server actually sends a hostname, then you *can* leave it out of install.cfg. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere --Apple-Mail-2-394073727 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFD72Vzme8yCsQvJJ0RAuWUAJ4pyYDLgXSJF5qbjrftdLrOl7j/ggCfbpIV EwypUCO2X5L08zFzgIWbMNk= =XwLu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-2-394073727--