Adam Nielsen wrote: >> Is there any way to quickly determine a physical interface’s MAC address >> prior to OS installation? >> >> I ask because I’d like to provide the MAC address to Cobbler to tell it >> what system/kickstart profile to apply to the machine instead of just >> doing a generic “one-for-all” PXE boot. > > This is something that bugs me about Dell desktop PCs, I asked their > ProSupport people about it but they didn't have any ideas either. > > The best way I have come up with is to hit F12 to do a PXE boot which > will display the MAC address on the screen. Looks like the PowerEdge > machines display this in the BIOS though which is one up from the > desktop machines. > > I'd still prefer a sticker on the back of the case though :-)
I think that's an option Dell provides. All out Dell desktop PCs come with a sticker with service tag, model, MAC address, order number. Presumably they can do the same with servers. -- Mark Whidby Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix) - Physics/Chemistry/EAES/Mathematics Team Information Systems Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
