On 6 Jun 2002, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 10:26, rpjday wrote: > > and it's still unclear to me whether these two directives are independent > > and whether you can have either one without the other. the customization > > guide states: > > > > "If you do not specify a path or filename, the client system will try to > > mount /kickstart from the BOOTP/DHCP server ..." > > > > but what if you *had* a "next-server" directive? will the client > > system try to mount that same directory from the specified next-server > > or not? can anyone clarify this? > > afaik next-server is used to tell it what the system it should talk to > in place of the dhcp server > > so the answer is this: > > if you do not specify filename it will try to find the files in: > next-server:/kickstart which, as i suspected, means the doc is misleading. thanks. next week, when i have a classroom full of machines to be kickstarted, i'll get a chance to play and test all this. rday
