Le ven 27/06/2003 à 03:27, John a écrit : > On 26 Jun 2003, Eric Doutreleau wrote: > > And you can't add a NIC to the machine you use? > Well i install more than several hundreds of machine. foreach machine it takes to me less than 30 seconds with kickstart + cfengine ( for the machine of course it s more but i don't care ). I would prefer not to have hardware manipulation. > ) > The purpose of the filename and next-server information supplied by the > DHCP server is to tell your not-very-intelligent computer where to get > its operating system. > > > I don't believe that kickstart supports any other use for this > information, though you might be able to fudge it in the %pre section > of the kickstart file. > But kickstart use it. it s here http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-kickstart2-putkickstarthere.html > > Grub also can be built to load off the network. The only problem I've > had is it doesn't work with my 3COM NIC(s). The advantage of GRUB is > that one floppy can support many NICs. > I would prefer not use floppy too i used to use them but i have terrible problem with bad sectors. a CDROM is far more reliable. i will lok at the http option -- Eric Doutreleau <Eric.Doutreleau@xxxxxxxxxxx>
