Re: ks.cfg & RedHat tree

[Fred Leeflang <f.leeflang@xxxxxx>]

Philip Rowlands wrote:

> The pxelinux image must live on the "next-server" at "filename", but
> there's no requirement that next-server == DHCP server.

I'll take your word for it and experiment with it tomorrow.
If what you say is true I see no reason not to do a PXELINUX
boot.

> > Not a big issue I guess. How would you go about passing the
> > location of the PXELINUX image? Is it possible to set those
> > arguments in the filename "" setting in DHCP?
>
>
> An example might make this clearer:
>
> shared-network EXAMPLE-DHCP {
>   use-host-decl-names	on;
>   option domain-name	"example.com";
>   subnet 10.1.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>     option routers 10.1.1.1;
>     option domain-name-servers		10.1.3.2;
>     next-server				10.1.3.2;
>     filename				"/tftpboot/pxelinux.0";
>     host nosuchmac {
>       hardware ethernet		00:11:00:33:22:11;
>       fixed-address		10.1.1.222;
>     }
>   }
> }

But where does this tell pxelinux.0 where to find the
ks.cfg file then? Sorry I read over my question and I
formulated the question rather poorly.

> Cheers,
> Phil

Thanks a bunch already Phil :)