0.6.6:
- Fixed an error in postinst script for Debian.
- Setup a wiki environment for documentation/tickets and source
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This version can be downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/outgoing/pxeconfig.tar.gz
Information, documentation and reporting bugs for the package:
https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/pxeconfig
Here is the README:
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PXE-utilities
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This is a release of the SARA package of utilities that we use to boot
our nodes with PXE-enabled network cards. This was developed because we
always want to use the PXE-enabled network card as our first boot
device. With pxelinux, which is a derivative of syslinux, you can
specify with a PXE configuration file how the node must boot. This
configuration is placed in, e.g. '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg' directory.
In our setup we have a default setup. The default setup is to boot from
harddisk. When a node boots it fetches the default configuration file
and the configuration file tells the node to boot from the harddisk.
This setup is used for nodes that have already been installed by
systemimager.
At SARA we have developed the following strategy how to install a fresh
node.
1) The ip-address in our setup is known for the new node. So
we make a link in the '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg' directory to a
pxe config file which tells that it has to fetch the kernel en
root filesystem from our bootserver, eg:
0A000A02 ---> default.node_install (10.0.10.2)
2) The client starts and uses the systemimager software to install
the node. The last line of installation script connects to a
daemon on the bootserver. This daemon will remove the PXE config
filefor this node.
3) The node reboots and will use the default pxe config file which
will instruct the node to boot from harddisk.
This release contains the following utilities:
pxeconfigd)
This is daemon that removes the pxe configuration file of a node.
pxeconfig)
With this program we can specify which pxe config file
a node or nodes must use. This utility will create the links
in '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg'
hexls)
Is a utility that diplays a directory, and, if in this directory
contains HEX files, it will convert them to IP-numbers.
All these utilities are written in Python.
Comments or Suggestions mail them to:
Bas van der Vlies <pxeconfig at sara dot nl>
http://www.sara.nl for more info about SARA.
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