Thanks for the input, Patrick. One quick question with that though.<div><br></div><div>In the setting you suggest we add to the grub, </div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/srv/fai/<u></u>nfsroot-2.6.39 boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,<u></u>createvt FAI_ACTION=install</div>
<div><br></div><div>I assume ip=dhcp suggests acquiring an IP address from the existing DHCP server. However, the machines are already assigned static IPs and the DHCP server doesn't assign any. Wouldn't that be a problem. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Karthik<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Patrick Cervicek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick@failist.spamtrap.hs-esslingen.de">patrick@failist.spamtrap.hs-esslingen.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Karthik Kambatla wrote:<br>
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Thanks for the quick response, Henning.<br>
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Sadly, we can't configure the existing DHCP server (the Department owns it<br>
and doesn't let students tamper with it).<br>
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we have the same scenario <a href="http://lisas.de/~patrick/blog/?p=113" target="_blank">http://lisas.de/~patrick/blog/<u></u>?p=113</a><div class="im"><br>
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Just confirming - do you think we can pass the PXE boot information through<br>
USB/CD as well?<br>
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yes, your USB/CD can still get an IP of the DHCP server, but you can "hardcode" you NFS-Server to your cd.<br>
simply add this this to your kernel boot prompt (in grub)<br>
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ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/srv/fai/<u></u>nfsroot-2.6.39 boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,<u></u>createvt FAI_ACTION=install<br>
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So you are not longer dependent on any PXE/TFTP setting on the DHCP server<br><font color="#888888">
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Patrick<br>
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