Installing Debian Squeeze (i386) - No $HOSTNAME set

[Karl Wallner]

Hallo,

just tried to install current Debian Squeeze (i386) using fai 3.4.2 with partly success.
(Installation with Fai is quite new to me, so maybe I should have tried lenny first - but
however I need a squeeze installation.)

So here is what I have done:
- Downloaded and installed fai-packages from http://people.debian.org/~mika/fai/release/
- Typical commands:
	fai-setup
	fai-mirror /srv/fai/mirror
	make-fai-nfsroot;
   	fai-cd -f -m /srv/fai/mirror /mnt/hgfs/TEMP/fai-test1.iso
   Just used demo config (except some changes for my local mirror).
- Booted the fai-cd
- Selected gnomehost (demohost didn't work either)

After installation finished only the base system (FAIBASE and DHCPC) was there,
no GNOME and no GERMAN as expected. The login prompt on the second terminal is
"root@(none)". No hostname set, no network configuration, "cat /proc/cmdline"
says:
	BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,createvt
	FAI_ACTION=install ip=192.168.1.1:::::eth0:of hostname=gnomehost"

Guess somehow these settings should be passed to the installation system.
That seems to be the reason why only FAIBASE was installed (script "50-host-classes").


Regards
	Karl