Can't you just re-master your ISO by sticking the local.cfg file there? Most people actually use the network boot feature - is there any particular reason you're not network booting your machines?
Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of scott gamble > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 19:13 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] livecd problems > > I mean no disrespect - thank you all for your suggestions and > pointers... > > scott gamble wrote: > > Hi um, that sounds insane. Reconfigure your DHCP server or > add kernel > > boot arguments. Or have an additional floppy. Theres no > way to put a > > simple local.cfg text file in a location that the livecd > iso tool will > > include when building the iso? > > > > I mean Boot CD's are by far the most common medium to > address this kind > > of issue. Nobodys run across this and found a real fix? > All three of > > those suggestions sound like an akward hack (no offense) to > what should > > be in my minds eye a simple and fundamental function of SI. > Do you not > > agree? > > > > S > > > > Andrea Righi wrote: > >> scott gamble wrote: > >>> When booting from the livecd it runs through its checks > fine and locates > >>> the DHCP server and pulls an address like its suppose to > (DHCP is being > >>> handled by my IPCOP router) but then (me looking at the > logs) it appears > >>> the LiveCD assumes the DHCP server is also the image > server. In the > >>> instructions it recommends putting your image server on > the same box as > >>> your dhcp server but it does not say its required to do > so. The LiveCD > >>> does a ping verification against the dhcp server, says > congrats you have > >>> network connectivity to the image server and tries to > establish an rsync > >>> connection and - psht, craps out (because its trying to > pull an image > >>> from the router/dhcp server and not the image server). > >>> DHCP is on .1 and the image server is on like .225 on a > /24 so nowhere > >>> near each other. > >> > >> If you can configure your dhcp server, simply add these options to > >> dhcpd.conf: > >> > >> # Imageserver > >> option option-140 code 140 = text; > >> # option-140 is the IP address of your SystemImager image server > >> option option-140 "<IP_of_your_image_server>"; > >> > >> Otherwise you can override the ip of the image server adding > >> IMAGESERVER=<ip_of_you_image_server> to the kernel boot parameters, > >> usually changing the > /etc/systemimager/pxelinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg and run > >> si_mkautoinstallcd again... > >> > >> Regards, > >> -Andrea > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking > scripting language > > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend > the live > > webcast > > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new > coding territory! > > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&; > dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Sisuite-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking > scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend > the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new > coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&; > dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
