Le jeu 26/06/2003 à 16:29, John a écrit : > 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 Well i just can't and even if i could i would prefer not to :) > . > > If not, it shouldn't be hard to modify pump in the installer to add > additional information... AHhhhhhhhhh Hmm It s what i would like to do do you have any information about doing that? > > This is before the installer? Well i really don't know. > > 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. > I would prefer not to use etherboot as i have a lot of different hardware. with kickstart i boot with only one CD for all my machine. i would love not lose this fact. Nevertheless thanks for your answer. -- Eric Doutreleau <Eric.Doutreleau@xxxxxxxxxxx>
