Change hostname early setting

[baldursgate]

There is a setting called CHANGE_HOSTNAME_EARLY, which I understand is supposed to change the hostname right after imaging is complete. I have it set to 1, but when I image my machines they always show “Changing hostname… [SKIPPED]”

I’m using Windows XP in a non-domain environment, is that not supported?

[Squeaner]

Where are you finding this setting at? I can check 1 of my 6 environments that it is working at and see what my setting it at.

[baldursgate]

It’s at Other Information -> FOG Settings -> scroll down to General settings

Tried setting it to 0 and 1, still says SKIPPED when imaging finishes.

[Fernando Gietz]

What version of FOG are you using?
Image partitions?
The error apears when the hostname variable not exists.

[baldursgate]

Ah, it just occurred to me that when you sysprep, there is no hostname until the first boot. Could that be why?

Any way to use this feature along with sysprep?

I’m using FOG 0.32 with single partition+resizable images.

[Fernando Gietz]

[I]“Tried setting it to 0 and 1, still says SKIPPED when imaging finishes.”[/I]
Here the problem is that the fog script doesn’t find the variable $hostname or is empty, and when invokes the function changeHostname, the condition:
if [-n hostname]…

is false. And doesn’t makes the changes in the windows registry.

To be sure that the variable is sent, you can make this:
[LIST=1]
[]send a deploy task.
[]in the FOG server must be a file in /tftfboot/pxelinux.cfg/01-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX . XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX is the client MAC address.
[*]The file looks like this:
[/LIST]
[CODE]# Created by FOG Imaging System,
DEFAULT fog
LABEL fog
kernel fog/kernel/bzImage
append initrd=fog/images/init.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 ip=dhcp dns=
type=down img=aula-bz-ciencias-mug002-docencia mc=yes port=63208 storageip=192.xxx.xxx.xxx storage=192.xxx.xxx.xxx:/images/ mac=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ftp=192.xxx.xxx.xxx web=192.xxx.xxx.xxx/fog/ osid=1 imgType=n shutdown= loglevel=4
fdrive= chkdsk=0 hostname=UXXXXXX[/CODE]

If the hostname variable value is null or empty, then the fog script skips the hostname change.

[Squeaner]

Try one of the newer kernel’s. I think the older kernels don’t support the change right after imaging.