Sorry, I sent this mail to the wrong address - I will resend it to the mailing list address.
Sorry for any inconvenience, Werner Fischer On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 09:51 +0200, Werner Fischer wrote: > I'm new to FAI, but it seems very useful for me. I was not able to find > information on some of my questions (after reading the FAI Guide, using > Google and searching the mailing list archive), so here is my post: > > I want to use FAI to install two different kinds of systems, "system1" > and "system2" (so I will use two different classes for that). I will > only do a first-time installation, the machines are afterwards not > connected to my network and out of my control (so I will also not need > the nice FAI features for re-installing a machine later on). > > Question 1: > Chapter 3.5 "Collecting Ethernet addresses" in the FAI Guide describes > that it is necessary to collect the MAC addresses and assign hostnames > and IP addresses to them. > I don't care about the IP address during installation (the IP addresses > will be changed afterwards anyway). The hostname should always be the > same for a machine in a class (either "system1" or "system2"). Is there > a way to omit the step "Collecting MAC addresses"? > > Question 2: > The hardware for machines for "system1" class and "system2" class is > exactly the same. If the faiserver has two network interfaces, is it > possible to use both network interfaces for FAI installation in a way > that machines, that are connected to eth0 on the faiserver will be in > class "system1" and machines, that are connected to eth1 on the > faiserver will be in class "system2"? > Any other ideas on how to differentiate two types of systems when the > hardware is the same and I do not want to rely on MAC/IP address based > mechanisms? > > Thanks in advance for any ideas about that, > Werner Fischer