Re: New to FAI, having some issues building

Matthew Pounsett <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:18:44 -0500

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On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM Stuart Green via linux-fai <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I'm still unsure how to have the hostname set correctly, it keeps getting
> installed as localhost.
>

I had to modify fai-chboot so that it sets an environment variable on the
booting system.   Find the line that sets the $append variable and add a
HOSTNAME assignment to that line:

$append="append $initrd $bootprot $rootfs HOSTNAME=$host $opt_k $flags
$action\n";

 There was a thread about it here: <
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04809.html>