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Matt Wilson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:19:08PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
Another way is by use of zeroconf: mDNSclient code in Anaconda could
seek out information about the environment.
I don't like the idea of having to add more client code in the loader.
One reason I didn't suggest it. I've been thinking about the problem and
possible solutions of which Zeroconf is one, but I don't think it's
the best.
I've been thinking some time about ways to reduce the configuration
sysadmins must do in order to install. kickstart is good, way better
than I thought when it was first introduced. Using PXE is good (though
my experience until recently was with faulty boot roms).
A natural extension of using DHCP and PXE to get to a kickstart
install is to follow RFC2489 to get a DHCP option number assigned.
This would give anaconda a reserved place to get the ks.cfg location
from the DHCP server without overloading option 67 or the bootfile;
That avoids possible confusion. Maybe better is this:
option vendor-encapsulated-options string;
The vendor-encapsulated-options option can contain either a sin-
gle vendor-specific value or one or more vendor-specific subop-
tions.
which does not require special registration.
This could be useful too: option www-server. It "says" IP address, but
ip-address can be expressed as a domain name.
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