I had setup an infrastructure for automatic installation of Debian based machines. It uses PXE booting with DHCP and TFTP servers, and preseed to automate the OS installation.
What I want is:
- use DHCP for PXE boot
- use DHCP for Debian installer: it needs an IP address to access the preseed file and I don't want to enter it manually
- use a static IP address on the final installed OS. This IP address will be specified in the preseed file.
But I can't find how to do that, even know if it's possible.
My current preseed file looks like this (network parameters only):
# netcfg will choose an interface that has link if possible. This makes it
# skip displaying a list if there is more than one interface.
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto
# If you prefer to configure the network manually, uncomment this line and
# the static network configuration below.
d-i netcfg/disable_autoconfig boolean true
# If you want the preconfiguration file to work on systems both with and
# without a dhcp server, uncomment these lines and the static network
# configuration below.
d-i netcfg/dhcp_failed note
d-i netcfg/dhcp_options select Configure network manually
# Static network configuration.
#
# IPv4 example
d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.10
d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0
d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 192.168.1.254
d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string 192.168.1.1
d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true
(I also tested commenting the line d-i netcfg/disable_autoconfig boolean true
with the same result).
Do anyone knows how to do that?
Thanks.
ps: It's Debian Wheezy
Use in preseed options of your's own command execution after installation:
The dopostinstall.sh something like that: