Configuring System Hostname with preseed and dhcp

Narcis Garcia informatica at actiu.net
Mon Jun 22 15:19:17 UTC 2015


You can use one of:
preseed/early_command
preseed/late_command

to associate a script; this script can get the leased hostname, and run
in "chroot /target" a hostname command.


El 22/06/15 a les 13:14, Sebastian Himmler ha escrit:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently trying to do an automated, preseeded installation of Ubuntu 
> Gnome 14.04.
> Everything is working well, apart from the network config. I want to configure 
> the client to set the hostname from dhcp or dns during installation. The 
> dhcp-server is sending the host-name option. This config is working with 
> normal ubuntu net installers.
> 
> When the installation is finished, the hostname still remains "ubuntu".
> 
> My net-cfg config:
> d-i netcfg/enable boolean true
> d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 60
> d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth0
> 
> 
> What else is there to be configured in Ubuntu Gnome?
> 
> Thanks for your advise
> 
> Sebastian
> 



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