On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:05 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > > 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. That's fine, until somebody else decides they want to use the same string without knowing that anaconda will do something with it. (I know it seems unlikely, but stranger things happen all the time.) I wouldn't want to see this committed to the tree until it's been properly assigned. That's not to say I wouldn't be happy to review any patches to handle it. -- Peter
