Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:42:27 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scripting sysinstall for pxeboot Message-ID: <B098C5BF-92E3-44B9-BDEF-BCB3D1C894FB@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20060211043020.GA27461@rescomp.berkeley.edu> References: <20060211043020.GA27461@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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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
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