Package: debian-installer
Boot method: network
Image version: debian-installer_20150422+deb8u3_armel.deb
Date: January 18, 2016
Machine: QNAP TS-420U
Processor: Marvell 1.6 GHz
Memory: 1GB DDR3
Severity: normal
Partitions:
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
* Peter Nagel [2016-02-24 13:47]:
> The debian installer (within expert mode) does not ask for the (new)
> hostname but just takes the hostname from the flash memory.
We read the hostname from your existing configuration, but I don't see
any code that actually sets this hostname in d-i (this migh
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Peter Nagel [2016-02-24 13:47]:
>> The debian installer (within expert mode) does not ask for the (new)
>> hostname but just takes the hostname from the flash memory.
>
> We read the hostname from your existing configuration, but I don'
From other installations I'm used to get ask for the new hostname -
e.g. the installer prompts with the following message:
"Please enter the hostname for this system.
The hostname is a single word that identifies your system to the network.
If you don't know what your hostname should be, consult
* Roger Shimizu [2016-02-25 18:59]:
> the code in:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/oldsys-preseed.git/tree/oldsys-preseed
> Line: 291
> HOSTNAME=$(grep "Server Name" $path/sda1/.config/uLinux.conf | sed 's/^.*
> //')
>
> hostname get from there, and d-i won't really set up $HOSTNAME?
W
* Peter Nagel [2016-02-25 11:02]:
> From other installations I'm used to get ask for the new hostname - e.g. the
> installer prompts with the following message:
...
> However, it looks like that the message (shown above) is missing for the
> QNAP (armel) installation.
Sorry, my explanation obviou
* Martin Michlmayr [2016-02-25 10:40]:
> We read the hostname and store it as $HOSTNAME but then we do:
>
> add "$FILE" "netcfg/get_hostname" "string" "debian"
>
> I guess this should be $HOSTNAME (if set) or "debian". But I'm not
> sure that's even worth fixing now.
Never mind... we do the ri
On 25.02.2016 19:46, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> I'm not sure how difficult it would be to run netcfg again after you
> connect with SSH and to show the hostname selection.
>
> Anyway, can you tell me if the installer took the hostname from DHCP?
The installer takes the hostname from DHCP.
Concern
* Nagel, Peter (IFP) [2016-02-25 22:45]:
> > Anyway, can you tell me if the installer took the hostname from DHCP?
> The installer takes the hostname from DHCP.
Thanks for confirming this. (I know this isn't the problem you were
reporting, but I hear some issues around that and just wanted to
en
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Roger Shimizu [2016-02-25 18:59]:
>> the code in:
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/oldsys-preseed.git/tree/oldsys-preseed
>> Line: 291
>> HOSTNAME=$(grep "Server Name" $path/sda1/.config/uLinux.conf | sed 's/^.*
>> //')
>>
>>
* Roger Shimizu [2016-02-26 09:44]:
> > I guess this should be $HOSTNAME (if set) or "debian". But I'm not
> > sure that's even worth fixing now.
>
> I think it deserves a fix
It's not broken (see my follow-up).
> because RAID set-up also depends on the hostname as default name.
> see ML threa
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Roger Shimizu [2016-02-26 09:44]:
>> > I guess this should be $HOSTNAME (if set) or "debian". But I'm not
>> > sure that's even worth fixing now.
>>
>> I think it deserves a fix
>
> It's not broken (see my follow-up).
So you mean host
* Roger Shimizu [2016-03-01 00:25]:
> So you mean hostname actually is got from DHCP, so it's not broken here?
> I tried d-i on my Linkstation with 2 different device, in 2 different
> network (DHCP server), both of the final hostname are "debian", with
> RAID name also "debian".
Debian installer
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:46 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Roger Shimizu [2016-03-01 00:25]:
>> So you mean hostname actually is got from DHCP, so it's not broken here?
>> I tried d-i on my Linkstation with 2 different device, in 2 different
>> network (DHCP server), both of the final hostname a
On 01.03.2016 00:32, Roger Shimizu wrote:
>
> From implementation side, as you explained before, network-console
> requires network set-up in early stage, so it may be hard to set up
> hostname a second time.
If your ssh connection is bind to the hostname (ssh
user@hostname.domain) the connection
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