Remote boot w. PXE etc.
Jakob Østergaard
jakob at unthought.net
Thu May 17 12:20:06 PDT 2001
Hello people !
I've been trying to get some nodes booting over PXE. I want the machines to
load the kernel over the network and only use local disk for /tmp and swap. (I
may even do that over the network as well)
I tried the Intel PXE server from RedHat 7.[01], and had *some* success.
Meaning, I can get the basic configuration to work, but I cannot configure the
PXE server so that each node (identified by MAC or IP) gets it's own
configuration. This is a requirement for my setup. I simply cannot find
documentation.
I looked at bpbatch as recommended in the remote-boot HOWTO, but got annoyed
because they have a license that I have a hard time agreeing with, and there's
no RPM etc. etc. Lazyness, pride and stubbornness is a great combo ;)
Does anyone have docs for the Intel PXE server that's included with RedHat, or
did you have success booting using some other PXE package, or something
entirely different ?
Thanks,
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