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Manually set mirror/http/proxy string

Asked by Stavros Lagos

Hello,
I am trying to have my preseed file to ask for mirror/http/proxy string value during installation as my proxy server gets a dynamic IP address depending on the network I am installing my distro. I tried to work around that problem by enabling avahi daemon (Depending on my DNS server domain could be .local / .lan or whatever DNS choose to). I have tried to enable NETBIOS name through SAMBA, but itt fails to resolve NETBIOS names during installation. I thought that it could be a good idea to have user manually put the IP address of the proxy.
Any ideas are welcome.

Stavros

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Use BASH variables and the export command. Can you add these to your file?

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Stavros Lagos (stavroslagos) said : 		#2

I am not sure that I can use shell script in a preseed file. Also I am not sure I can use variables too. It would have been a solution though if I could.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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