- Package:
- debian-edu-install
- Source:
- debian-edu-install
- Submitter:
- Mike Gabriel
- Date:
- 2026-08-21 18:43:01 UTC
- Severity:
- wishlist
- Tags:
While testing 11u3 ISO images, I noticed that a standalone Debian Edu installation does not ask for a hostname. It tries to find a hostname via DNS/DHCP and falls back to am-<mac>. There is space for improvement here. Dunno, if that is possible within D-I and the current debian-edu-profile.udeb design. Mike
[Mike Gabriel] Will it accept the hostname on the boot prompt as hostname=some.domain.name?
[ Petter Reinholdtsen, 2022-03-29 ] No; the update-hostname-from-ip script will overwrite the hostname given as kernel command line param with am-<mac>, just like it happens with 'hostname=pxeinstall' for PXE installed systems. Wolfgang
Hi Wolfgang, Thanks for the feedback, I did not yet get around to testing Petters question / hint. I'd quite favour a change to update-hostname-from-ip that adds a check to the script that finds out wether the machine is on a Debian Edu network or somewhere entirely else. Definitely, the update-hostname-from-ip should be usable on the home Debian Edu network, but IMHO nowhere else. Mike
Hello, Bug #1008597 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/4962248d17875ef7493db0a28f51739501c3488e ------------------------------------------------------------------------ share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel: Support hostname override via /proc/cmdline. (Closes: #1008597). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1008597
Hello, Bug #1008597 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/4ff952f918920a387579a99a72e38fac0b0a2467 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel: Support hostname override via /proc/cmdline. (Closes: #1008597). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1008597
Control: reassign -1 src:debian-edu-config This needed to be fixed in d-e-c, see https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/merge_requests/47 Mike
Hello, Bug #1008597 in debian-edu-config reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit message below and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/commit/163d7c6df4dcabddcab0094991eb0e95d1b08d4f ------------------------------------------------------------------------ share/debian-edu-config/d-i/pre-pkgsel: Support hostname override via /proc/cmdline. (Closes: #1008597). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/1008597