Bug 119056

Summary: LTC7038-hostname not being propogated from parm file to installer
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Bill Goodrich <billgo>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version: 3.0CC: bjohnson, borgan
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Description Bill Goodrich 2004-03-24 15:57:14 UTC 
The following has be reported by IBM LTC:  
hostname not being propogated from parm file to installer
Hardware Environment:
zSeries

Software Environment:
RHEL3 U2

Steps to Reproduce:
1. normal install 
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Actual Results:

host name not being propogated from parm file to installer

Expected Results:

hostname should have been progated 

Additional Information:
parm file content:

 root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off DASD=0201                                  
 CHANDEV=qeth0,0x0600,0x0601,0x0602 BROADCAST=192.168.70.255         
 QETHPARM=add_parms,0x10,0x0600,0x0602,portname:PETLINUX             
 NETTYPE=eth IPADDR=192.168.70.131 HOSTNAME=rh31bill.pdl.pok.ibm.com 
 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.70.1 MTU 1500                 
 DNS=192.168.70.2 SEARCHDNS=pdl.pok.ibm.com NETWORK=192.168.70.0
Comment 1 Brock Organ 2004-03-24 17:05:01 UTC 
Hi Bill,

In my tests so far the hostname is propagated through the installer
(see attached screenshot for example) ... I will try a permutation of
the parm file like yours above (ie the order of the parameters) to see
if that matters ...
Comment 2 Brock Organ 2004-03-24 17:07:11 UTC 
Created attachment 98831 [details]
TUI install with hostname propagated
Comment 4 Brock Organ 2004-03-24 21:11:08 UTC 
with additional help from bill (thanks!) I was able to reproduce this
internally ...
Comment 6 Florian La Roche 2004-04-20 09:55:21 UTC 
Hostnames are only set for the installed machine if DNS contains
a valid setting for this. This is done this way across all archs AFAIK.
Comment 7 Bob Johnson 2004-04-20 13:40:06 UTC 
So I would say this is working as designed ?
Comment 8 Bill Goodrich 2004-04-21 14:45:52 UTC 
That messes up any hope for an automated install for those machines.
If the user specifies a host name why not accept it?