SUMMARY: Incorrect /etc/hosts after a jumpstart

Gustavo Chaves (gustavo@cpqd.br)
Fri, 09 May 1997 11:34:01 -0300

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.