if PXE-Server ! NFS-Server?

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
Wed Jan 19 18:22:00 CET 2005


>>>>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:16:35 +0100, Michael Renner <michael.renner at gmx.de> said:

    > after installing with bootp for years I have to switch to dhcp with PXE. But 
    > the dhcp & pxe server is not the fai installation server.

    > How can I configure, that the nfs-root for installation is an other host?

    > At the moment the client get's an IP, get's the kernel from the dhcp & pxe 
    > server.
    > But where can I configure the name or IP of the NFS-server?
IMHO, use server-name in dhcpd.conf. But it should also be possible to 
define it in pxelinux.cfg:

>From the file /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.26/Documentation/nfsroot.txt:

nfsroot=[<server-ip>:]<root-dir>[,<nfs-options>]

Hope this helps.
-- 
regards Thomas



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