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 2. 3. 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
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 ...
Created attachment 98831 [details] TUI install with hostname propagated
with additional help from bill (thanks!) I was able to reproduce this internally ...
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.
So I would say this is working as designed ?
That messes up any hope for an automated install for those machines. If the user specifies a host name why not accept it?