Dieter Schicker wrote:
>>> Another question: Client installation works fine here except that when I
>>> boot the client after installation it says that the disks have not been
>>> checked for 42000 days (!! ;-)) and of course runs fsck. Can I avoid this?
>>>
>>>     
>> I suppose you're using ext2 fs. In this case you can skip fsck setting
>> the max_mnt_count to 0. To do that you can create a post-install script
>> like the following:
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>> tune2fs -c 0 /dev/<your_ext2fs_device>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>   
> Hm, the man page says that this is dangerous. So I tried:
> 
> tune2fs -c 120 -i 4m -C 0 /dev/hda1
> 
> But I got the same 42000 days message ... Well, it's not so important
> since the fsck runs very quickly on ext3.

the command seems ok, but ext3 doesn't need fsck... I don't know why
your distro is trying to do a fsck on it (btw which distro are you using?).

> 
> Another question: I'm trying to install my clients with wakeonlan and
> pxe. For some obscure reason (at least for me ;-)) for some hosts it
> takes 1 minute or 2 until they get an ip address from the dhcp server.
> Any ideas?
> 

In the past I resolved a similar problem enabling the portfast on the
router for all the interfaces, typically in a CISCO OS you can do it with:

# configure terminal
# interface ...
# spanning-tree portfast

...but this doesn't resolve all the possible cases..

Regards,
-Andrea

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