John Beck wrote: > If you boot from a cdrom on the client, do you still need to have pxe > setup on the Server? Or is that handled via the bootable cd? I don't > really want to run dhcp (but if I have too that's fine) but just have a > static IP that I can change post install.
You don't need a pxe or a dhcp server if you boot from cd and you define a static ip address via local.cfg of via the kernel boot parameters. > > Once the client boots from the cd isn't it pretty much just running > rsync to the cleint disks? (after partitioning of course). > > I've run into problems with booting from the cdrom, first it was > "attempt to access beyond end of device" which I got rid of with some > "append" statement. Which is the exact appended string you used? it seems that the ramdisk_size it's still not enough.. > > Now I'm getting "Warning: unable to open an initial console" and wanted > to make sure I wasn't missing something. I've read the online docs and > just discovered the wiki for troubleshooting. > > We're running on Redhat ES3 and 4. > > Thanks, > -John > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 16777216 > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed > > attempt to access beyond end of device > > ram0: rw=0, want=32776, limit=32768 > > EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode block - > inode > 289, block=16387 > > Warning: unable to open an initial console. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
