Sorry,
I discovered what the problem was. In rom-o-matic, I had specified
REQUIRE_VCI_ETHERBOOT. I took this out, obtained the rom and now it works.
The thing is, I am using my bosses win2000 network and he uses dhcp for his
windows clients. I read the document at:
http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/pxe.howto.html
and it states that:
you first set the option: REQUIRE_VCI_ETHERBOOT when you make your
".lzpxe" image (or Configure it at rom-o-matic.net). This tells
Etherboot to ignore any reply that doesn't contain the VCI (vendor class
identifier) "Etherboot". Then you add the line:
option vendor-encapsulated-options
3c:09:45:74:68:65:72:62:6f:6f:74:ff;
to your "host" entry. This says "send the VCI 'Etherboot' back to the
requesting client". So now you can be pretty sure your client will be
talking to the right DHCP server.
What is the number following vendor-encapsulated-options? Some fancy
address?
TIA
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Fortunato
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 4:15 PM
Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: PXE boot cannot find DHCP server the second time
Hello Everyone,
I am running Mandrake 8.1 and am trying to attach one
client (1G processor 128MB Ram) with a RTL8193 network card with PXE.
Firstly, it detects the DHCP server and downloads the etherboot image
wrapped in a form PXE can load. It then trys to look for the DHCP server
again, but I get a message:
looking for server(DHCP)........
.......................................no server found
boot from (N)network or (L)local?
Why can't it find the DHCP server again?
TIA
Regards
Tony Fortunato
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