Ubuntu
netcfg package

  1. Bug #855921
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 855921

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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote :

ooshlablu is correct. You cannot preseed network settings in a preseed file which the installer is loading from a network location, because the network needs to be configured before the preseed can be fetched.

The solution here is to pass the appropriate options on the kernel command line.

You can either preseed the interface value directly, or you can pass the BOOTIF option on the kernel command line, which netcfg will use.

If using pxelinux, the relevant option is "IPAPPEND 2". http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#SYSAPPEND_bitmask

I'll set this bug to status Invalid now, as it's actually a support request on how to set up automated PXE, rather than an actual bug.