Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at Sun.COM> writes:
> Addressing this is probably a combination of:
>
> - introduce GRUB on SPARC to reduce the reliance on DHCP vendor options
Please don't: the current GRUB setup (having to edit/modify menu.lst for
each client) is a nightmare compared to the SPARC/pre-NewBoot way of having
vendor options to control settings. While this may be convenient for a
single system, it becomes very tedious when having to maintain large
numbers of systems
> - modify the default DHCP server setup so that the basic things you do
> need defined are there to begin with and it's just site-specific work
> that's needed
> - replace add_install_client and so on with tools that do a complete job
> of configuring installation service
>
> But I'm certainly interested in additional ideas.
As I think I mentioned before, JET has a plugin framework to handle this,
currently with a Sun DHCP module and and an ISC module in the works.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
