IMHO changing the kernel boot parameters is a simpler way... you have only to edit the syslinux.cfg file... it's the same thing to edit a local.cfg file... or am I missing something?
Regards, -Andrea 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
