On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:48:07AM +0200, Hildburg Asano wrote:
> 
> Hi,     
> 
> I am new with systemimager and have a few questions:
> 
> local.cfg:
> where should I put the local.cfg when I boot over LAN/PXE ? When I put it 
> just to my /tftpboot/systemimager, than it would be used for all nodes, but 
> local.cfg is node specific.

local.cfg needs to be on a local floppy - this will work even if you
boot over the network.
however, if you can control your dhcp server, using dhcp to configure
your system instead of local.cfg is usually a better solution.

> 
> static IP adresses:
> when I installed a node from an golden image with PXE, than all went ok and the
> new node has a static ip-adress assigned. But it is the same adress, that 
> the dhcpd is also using in the range-definition. and these adresses are beeing
> reused by dhcpd after the max-lease-time. 
> Is it possible to use one set of ip adresses for dhcp and a different for the 
> fixed ip adress of the installed node ? 

why not just configure dhcp to always hand out the same ip to each client,
and have them use dhcp even after installed?
man mkdhcpstatic.


> 
> install loop:
> how do you handle the problem, that the node will be installed in a loop, 
> when you have LANboot as first boot device in the BIOS setting. 
> when the LANboot is not the first in the BIOS boot sequence, you have to 
> manually request LANboot for the autoinstall, if the disk is already bootable. 
> I want to all with no manual intervention. 

there are some tools that ship with si to do this, though i've never used them,
and i don't think they're documented.

personally, i just always have machines setup to boot from the disk, then the
net, and i 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=1024'
to make the disk not bootable when it reboots.  it doesn't solve the case of
a broken lilo config, etc, but works most of the time.


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