On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Yes, theoretically that is what I want, but if I'm not mistaken
PXE boot is
dependent on a dhcp server giving the machine an IP and declaring
that it has
a boot image to provide, or am I wrong.
I want to give the ip as an option and use a given nfs server as a
root, not
resolve these values at run time
Hmmm, yes, you're right. There's got to be a way, though, using
bootp, MAC address and tftp, since that's how we did it 10 years
ago with X Terminals.
Setting up a DHCP server that does exactly what your bootp server did
10 years ago is not that hard.
DHCP doesn't *have* to assign IP addresses from a dynamic pool. It
can have fixed IP addresses for each of the MAC addresses you want to
serve, and refuse to supply anything for unknown MACs.
Total time to install the DHCP server software, read the
documentation, and configure the setup should be no more than a few
hours. At least, that's how long it took me to do an equivalent
setup for my home network.
Rick
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