Hi. We're using System Imager 4.0.2. We have a rack of Sunfire servers upon
which we're installing CentOS 5.2; a CentOS 5.2 virtual machine is our image
server, and a Sunfire is the golden client.
So. Using si_mkautoinstallcd works just fine, and we have two of our
Sunfires installed this way. However, for the remaining machines I'd like to
use a network install and am having trouble getting this to work.
Our DHCP server is a Windows box (our sysadmin doesn't like this fact but
that's the way things are right now), and again, our image server is a
CentOS 5.2 VM. Questions:
1. is it even possible to use netboot in our present environment (i.e. the
image and dhcp servers are not co-resident)?
2. if it is possible, then I'm obviously not understanding how to set this
up; I ran si_mkbootserver --localdhcp=n, and it completes successfully; then
I get these prompts:
"Once you're DHCP server is configured, you should be all set.
Do you want to run si_mkdhcpserver to configure your DHCP server ([y]/n)? "
I answered 'n' to the question since we already have a dhcp server running.
My (admittedly limited) understand of dhcp is that only a single server may
properly service a network; is that correct?
Anyhow, booting one of the Sunfires from the network shows "DHCP" and a
spinner; this runs for awhile then returns with "no boot filename received",
which I guess makes sense since our company dhcp server knows nothing about
our image server.
What do I need to do to get this working without replacing our dhcp server
or moving our image server. Thanks.
peace, david
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love.
But the greatest of these is love.
-- 1 Corinthians 13:13
For wisdom is more precious than rubies,
and nothing you desire can compare with her.
-- Proverbs 8:11
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