ubuntu hardy -- need network help

Jeff Knerr knerr at cs.swarthmore.edu
Tue May 20 20:35:24 CEST 2008


 Hi all. I'm having trouble getting my networking set up correctly.
 I've used FAI before, but I'm not an expert, and this is my first try
 with ubuntu (hardy). 

 I'm using fai-cd (to a usb drive) with this in menu.lst:

title Fully Automatic Installation - BOOTP
kernel /boot/vmlinuz boot=live FAI_FLAGS="verbose,createvt,sshd"
FAI_ACTION=install ip=:130.58.68.7:130.58.68.1:255.255.255.0::eth0:bootp
initrd /boot/initrd.img

 The install mostly works, but IPADDR and HOSTNAME don't get set. 
 If I change that ip= line to

ip=130.58.68.37:130.58.68.7:130.58.68.1:255.255.255.0:horseradish:eth0:bootp

 then the IPADDR is ok, but HOSTNAME still equals "host" (and I don't
 really want to specify the ip address -- that's what bootp is for,
 right?).

 Any ideas? This is also my first time using fai-cd.

 Install server = Ubuntu 8.04 with fai-server 3.2.4+svn4837, and also
 trying to install ubuntu hardy. I've put the log files here:
 http://web.cs.swarthmore.edu/failogs

 Bootp seems to respond correctly to bootptest, but during the install I
 see no bootp log messages on the server and nothing using tcpdump.

jeff


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