You should be able to collect a MAC with the auto-install floppy if you don't have PXE enabled NICs. MAC collection is done in either case by the server watching for DHCP requests on the network. So watch the terminals on the nodes... make sure they're at least making the request. If they are, and you've got the server "listening", then there may be a network issue somewhere between them. Some managed switches are configurable as to whether or not they pass along DHCP requests.
Jeremy
At 12:44 PM 11/14/2003, Bernard Li wrote:
Hi Jim:
I'm cc: the users' list so other people can jump in on the discussion as well.
I have never actually used the auto-install floppy and apparently it's useful if your nodes do not support PXE booting - is that the case for your client nodes - i.e. do they not support PXE boot?
I guess one easy way to find out what's going on is just to load up a terminal on the client nodes to see what is going on. That should give us more info to trouble-shoot.
You should probably read over section 5.9 in the Oscar Installation manual and also Appendix A for more info.
Cheers,
Bernard
Anna Corbett wrote:
So, they won't broadcast their mac address using the auto install floppy disk? Thanks for responding, Jim C ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Anna Corbett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] mac address
Hi:
Are your client nodes actually PXE booting?
That is the only way for it to transmit the mac address to the head node.
Cheers,
Bernard
Anna Corbett wrote:
I am trying to install Oscar 2.3 on top of RedHat 9.0. I get all the way to collecting mac addresses. There appears to be activity between the head node and the client node, but the head node does not get a mac address. I built a floppy disc and tried it in three different machines. Two of the machines had integrated fast Ethernet cards the other has a PCI Fast Ethernet card. I am convinced that it is something simple I have overlooked. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks, Jim C
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