using fai-chboot with mac-address

[Michael Tautschnig]

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> Hi!
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> Is there any good reason for this, that it is not possible to initiate
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> installations based on the MAC address?
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> Like making an output-file "01-00-11-22-33-44-55" from "fai-chboot -IBv
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> 00:11:22:33:44:55" ??
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> Is this a design decision or did it simply needed no one?
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I think it's just that nobody requested it before. But it should be pretty
straight forward to come up with a patch: Just check for ":" in the hostname and
handle this accordingly in the host2hex function of fai-chboot.

Best,
Michael

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