[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk kickstart in a DHCP setting

[Jan Hutař]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:18:47 +0000 "Velayutham, Prakash"
<Prakash.Velayutham at cchmc.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We have a network segment which does not have the Next Server
> set even though there is working DHCP in that segment. To
> install systems in that segment, I have created a Cobbler boot
> ISO.
> 
> Everything works as expected during install, but the system
> comes up with a hostname of "localhost.localdomain" instead of
> what I pass during the boot command line using
> "hostname=fqdn". Any idea why this is and how to remedy this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Prakash

Hello,
I'm not familiar with "Cobbler boot ISO" technique, but could
you try to search for related anaconda bugs on your version of
RHEL/Fedora/CentOS/...? I have found this old one (but also few
still open, but not directly your issue IMO):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461933

Regards,
Jan



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Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.
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