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
>
>