FAI Issues

[Marcus Wellnitz]

On Tuesday 30 June 2009 14:58:38 Robert Markula wrote:
> Hi Augustine,
> if I understand you correctly, you already have a DHCP server separate
> from the machine the FAI server is running on?
>
> Then it is perfectly fine to use your existing DHCP server to point to
> your TFTP server. You'll need something like this on your existing DHCP
> server:
>
> 	# TFTP-Server for PXE-Boot
> 	# 192.168.0.1 is the address of your TFTP server
> 	next-server 192.168.0.1;
> 	filename "pxelinux.0";
>
> This will instruct all clients to connect to the TFTP server and load
> the FAI image from there. From this point on, FAI takes over.
>
> However, don't forget to deactivate the DHCP server that FAI installed
> as a dependency.
>

Additionally check that both, server and client, have correct DNS entries 
(forward and reverse)
check it eg. with:
'nslookup MyHostname'
#nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' (your IP)


Marcus