Re: NFSROOT_ETC_HOSTS seems to be only able to except one line....

2003-07-29 Thread Walter Tautz
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Thomas Lange wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 14:42:01 -0400 (EDT), Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: i've found it useful to have this have more than one,,,I usually just edit the file directly ...granted recreating the nfs root would wipe this out

Re: FAI success stories, query about keeping system uptodate postinstall

2002-10-24 Thread Walter Tautz
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Thomas Lange wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:07:54 -0700, Bruce Edge [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 2 - Rather than install on a target box, have the FAI server be able to generate the install image in a directory so that target machines can NFS boot from it.

Re: Post-install dselect installs new packages on first run

2002-08-16 Thread Walter Tautz
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed this in every client I've installed so far; if you run dselect and go into the selection menu, select no packages there but continue on to install, a bunch of packages are installed that did not make it during the network install. Is

can dhcp clients contact a specific dhcp server perhaps by IP?

2002-08-11 Thread Walter Tautz
I am trying to setup a server to configure a bunch of machine on a subnet which is attached to a switch that forwards dhcp requests out of the subnet. I don't have control over this behaviour so is there `non-broadcasat' mode that would enable clients to contact a specific server, one that may

Re: Current plans for FAI. was Re: PCMCIA support in FAI?

2002-08-02 Thread Walter Tautz
All this does not mean, that I will not accept any code from other people, but it should be well written and documented. It's a good idea to contact be before writing new code. Maybe I'm also working on it or How about using some kind of literate programming approach to writing FAI, that