Thanks for the input, Patrick. One quick question with that though. In the setting you suggest we add to the grub,
ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/srv/fai/**nfsroot-2.6.39 boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,**createvt FAI_ACTION=install I assume ip=dhcp suggests acquiring an IP address from the existing DHCP server. However, the machines are already assigned static IPs and the DHCP server doesn't assign any. Wouldn't that be a problem. Karthik On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Patrick Cervicek < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Karthik Kambatla wrote: > > Thanks for the quick response, Henning. >> >> Sadly, we can't configure the existing DHCP server (the Department owns it >> and doesn't let students tamper with it). >> > > we have the same scenario > http://lisas.de/~patrick/blog/**?p=113<http://lisas.de/~patrick/blog/?p=113> > > > Just confirming - do you think we can pass the PXE boot information >> through >> USB/CD as well? >> > > yes, your USB/CD can still get an IP of the DHCP server, but you can > "hardcode" you NFS-Server to your cd. > simply add this this to your kernel boot prompt (in grub) > > ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/srv/fai/**nfsroot-2.6.39 > boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,**createvt FAI_ACTION=install > > So you are not longer dependent on any PXE/TFTP setting on the DHCP server > > Patrick > >
