Confusion with docs

[Geert Stappers]

At 22:32 +0200 6/7/02, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm new to FAI and just trying now to set up my installation server.
>
>I have the Debian mirror up and running, and am able to use it from
>my workstation with apt-get.  Now I'm trying to configure FAI.
>
>I'm trying to do this with PXE on eepro100s.  The docs say that you
>need:
>	tftp
>	bootp or dhcp
>
>There seems to be much information about configuring both tftp and
>bootp, but next to nothing about dhcp.  I'd prefer to use the ISC
>dhcp server because I have a lot of experience using it already, and
>it's one less thing for me to have to learn.  However, the only real
>information provided in the docs are "See the example dhcpd.conf
>file".
>
>I looked at that, changed it appropriately, but now the dhcp server
>dies with:
>
>	/etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf line 38: unknown option dhcp.option-171 \
>	option option-171 "sysinfo"
>
>I'm using:
>	ii  dhcp3-common   3.0+3.0.1rc9-2
>	ii  dhcp3-server   3.0+3.0.1rc9-2
>
>So, it appears that there's a problem with the example dhcpd.conf
>file using the lines:
>
>	option option-170 "FAISERVER:/usr/local/share/fai";  # FAI_LOCATION
>	option option-171 "sysinfo";			     # FAI_ACTION
>	option option-172 "verbose createvt sshd";	     # FAI_FLAGS
>
>Do the options 'option-17X' need to be previously defined somewhere
>using the 'option space' declaration to set up a new name space?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
>

Are you using the dhcpd.conf example of dhcpd or of FAI?
Use the example that comes with Fai, it makes a smaller DHCP message.
IIRC there where problems with the amount of options in the DHCP message.


Geert