Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS

[James]

Thanks Michael,

that worked,
i just thought it would've picked up hostname from DNS when getting the ip.
Redhat kickstart systems i setup didn't need the
option host-name "vm00"
so i didn't think this did.

thanks,
James

Michael Tautschnig wrote:

Hmm, Usually, you can boot very well even if the hostname is not set - you just need to tftp server address.

well the dns name has been set to that address in BIND
DHCP entry is like:

       group {
              # PXE-specific configuration directives
              next-server tftpserver;
              filename "linux-install/pxelinux.0";
                      # You need an entry like this for every host
              # unless you're using dynamic addresses
               host vm00 {
               hardware ethernet 00:0C:xx:xx:xx:xx;
               fixed-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
               }
       }

Well, you don't set a name here, at least not one for the client to see; try

adding

host-name "vm00";

after your fixed-address line, that might help.

Best,
Michael