On 26 Jun 2003, Eric Doutreleau wrote: > > Hi > > I'm wondering if it s possible when doing a network base kickstart > installation ( throug dhcp ) to set up the vendor class identifier in > the dhcp request in order to get different parameter. > > We have multi boot system here and we install all of our machine > through network. > Therefore there s some kind of competition among diffrent os for the > value of > next server > boot_filename > in the dhcpd.conf. > > if we could set up the vci to a particuliar value for kickstart we would > solved our problem at least for kickstart. > > Thanks in advance for any help Can't you each have your own LAN segment for installation purposes? That's what I prefer. If not, it shouldn't be hard to modify pump in the installer to add additional information... AHhhhhhhhhh This is before the installer? You can probably use etherboot (www.etherboot.org) to load and run the installer: it doesn't do PXE, but it shouldn't be hard to make NBI images, and from then on it's all the same. It means you either burn your own ROMs, or boot the "ROM" from floppy - intended for testing, but handy when your NIC doesn't have ROM. Here's my etherboot segment from dhcpd.conf: # Filched from http://clic.mandrakesoft.com/documentation/pxe/ch04.html class "Etherboot" { match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 13) = "Etherboot-5.0"; option vendor-encapsulated-options 3c:09:45:74:68:65:72:62:6f:6f:74:ff; option vendor-class-identifier "Etherboot-5.0"; vendor-option-space PXE; option PXE.mtftp-ip 0.0.0.0; filename "/tftpboot.ser"; } Presumably you can change the Etherboot string in the ROM and config file to something else if several of you want to do it on the same LAN. -- Please, reply only to the list. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
