Installing Debian Squeeze (i386) - No $HOSTNAME set

[Toomas Tamm]

Perhaps stupid question but you did not mention that... did you boot the
machine at the end of installation? If yes, are you sure your booted the
installed system, rather than the installation system again?

It sounds like you are still at the prompt of the installation system,
not your installed system.

Toomas

On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 12:46 +0200, Karl Wallner wrote:
> 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
>