Hi Russel,
Thanks for this information. I did managed to resolve my issue in a similar fashion based on
this cobbler list post. The following appears to work even though it didn't on my first attempt, but I added the trailing semicolon and it worked, but I may have done something else along the way:
d-i preseed/late_command string wget -O- http://$http_server/cblr/svc/op/script/$what/$name/?script=preseed_late_default | chroot /target /bin/sh -s; cp /target/etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces;
I've never dug into the cobbler package sources (wasn't even familiar with them), but I've now looked at the finish-install udeb package and it's very enlightening. I have a lot more to learn now. Is there anywhere that more fully documents all of the debian-installer "modules" (i.e. pkgsel, netcfg, etc.), besides
this and
this? It all still seems very cryptic at times and I'm really trying to better understand and improve my cobbler build server (seed files, cheetah templating, the entire detailed cobbler kickstart process from start to finish, etc.)