Re: Is DHCP server absolutely required - new FAI user

Thanks a lot, Patrick and Henning. Sweet. I guess that should work for us, I ll talk to the IT guys and come back in case we get stuck again. Thanks again, Karthik On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Patrick Cervicek < patr...@failist.spamtrap.hs-esslingen.de> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Karthik

Re: Is DHCP server absolutely required - new FAI user

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Karthik Kambatla wrote: I assume ip=dhcp suggests acquiring an IP address from the existing DHCP server. However, the machines are already assigned static IPs and the DHCP server doesn't assign any. Wouldn't that be a problem. According to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/file

Re: Is DHCP server absolutely required - new FAI user

Thanks for the input, Patrick. One quick question with that though. In the setting you suggest we add to the grub, ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/srv/fai/**nfsroot-2.6.39 boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,**createvt FAI_ACTION=install I assume ip=dhcp suggests acquiring an IP address

Re: Is DHCP server absolutely required - new FAI user

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Karthik Kambatla wrote: Thanks for the quick response, Henning. Sadly, we can't configure the existing DHCP server (the Department owns it and doesn't let students tamper with it). we have the same scenario http://lisas.de/~patrick/blog/?p=113 Just confirming - do you

Re: Is DHCP server absolutely required - new FAI user

Thanks for the quick response, Henning. Sadly, we can't configure the existing DHCP server (the Department owns it and doesn't let students tamper with it). Just confirming - do you think we can pass the PXE boot information through USB/CD as well? Thanks Karthik On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:17 AM

Re: Is DHCP server absolutely required - new FAI user

Hi, On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Karthik Kambatla wrote: > The guide says we need a DHCP server. The machines are assigned static IPs, > and we can't host a DHCP server in addition to the existing one You don't need an _additional_ DHCP Server. You can just configure your existing one to pro

Is DHCP server absolutely required - new FAI user

Hi there We are new to using FAI. We plan to use FAI to setup an Ubuntu cluster on 30 machines for our research group. The guide says we need a DHCP server. The machines are assigned static IPs, and we can't host a DHCP server in addition to the existing one in the department. Is there a way to g