SERVER not defined. Can't change network boot configuration

Henning Glawe glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de
Mon Jan 31 11:30:05 CET 2005


On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:16:07AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach walker <walker at gzlinux.org> [2005.01.31.1110 +0100]:
> > the line "SERVER not defined. Can't change network boot configuration" 
> > seems tip that something is wrong, what causes this error? what the 
> > SERVER do?
> 
> it identifies the machine to send the logs to (via ssh). 

SERVER in general is used for the installation server (i.e. the machine
providing the nfsroot and boot stuff, in most cases also the place to save
the logfiles, too). LOGSERVER, which defaults to SERVER, can be used to
override logfile's destination.

> include it in the boot configuration like so:
> 
>   kernel ... FAI_FLAGS=reboot SERVER=master.server.domain.org

or use /etc/fai/fai.conf 

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c u
henning



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