On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Haoxuan Zheng <jef...@mit.edu> wrote: > If the answer is that we need to set up netboot to boot via dhcp+tftp+nfs, > there is another constraint: we want our final system to make use of a > combination of roach-1 and roach-2. > We are going to have the server PC connected to both. Is there going to be a > conflict between the versions when we try to set up the NFS for roach-2 as > well?
The answer to this questin is yes. Have the DHCP server give out different network boot instructions to the roach 1's and 2's. They're at least distinguishable by mac address. (You're using ISC dhcpd or dnsmasq as your dhcp server, IIRC.) If the roach 1's and 2's are really nice, they'll be directly distinguishable as well by some dhcp option or the client identifier. See, for example, http://linux.die.net/man/5/dhcpd.conf for how this stuff works. --Andy
