SUMMARY: Incorrect /etc/hosts after a jumpstart

From: Gustavo Chaves (gustavo@cpqd.br)
Date: Tue May 13 1997 - 15:08:02 CDT


Hi Sun managers,

Thank very much to Bruce Cross and Scott MacDonald for their
responses. My problem is solved now. Here is the original question.

> ...
> The problem is simply that after a `successful'
> instalation/configuration, the /etc/hosts file ends like this:
>
> #
> # Internet host table
> #
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>
> We expected something like this:
>
> #
> # Internet host table
> #
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 10.202.40.32 lebre loghost
>
> ...

Here are the responses:

From: Scott MacDonald <scott@msi-uk.com>

  I remember having similar problems when I was setting up Jumpstart.
  The problem was that the Jumpstart directory MUST be exported read-only
  and NOT read-write. Hope that helps,

From: bruce.cross@tti.fingerhut.com (Bruce Cross)

  I had the same problem. Turns out I was sharing the install directory
  as "rw" and not "ro". ...

Gustavo.



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