--append "STRING" A string of options that will be passed to the autoinstall
kernel.
Just append the string during AutoInstallCD creation - voila.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andrea Righi
Sent: Thu 13/04/2006 00:35
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] livecd problems
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
>>
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