Hi David: Have a look at this thread, I believe you can do what you want:
http://www.mail-archive.com/sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04676.html Basically what you need to do is add option-140 to your Windows DHCP server with the ip address of your image server. If you do get around to set this up successfully, it would be great if you can add your experience to our Wiki: http://wiki.systemimager.org Thanks! Bernard On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:13 AM, David Young <youngde...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. We're using System Imager 4.0.2. We have a rack of Sunfire servers upon > which we're installing CentOS 5.2; a CentOS 5.2 virtual machine is our image > server, and a Sunfire is the golden client. > > So. Using si_mkautoinstallcd works just fine, and we have two of our > Sunfires installed this way. However, for the remaining machines I'd like to > use a network install and am having trouble getting this to work. > > Our DHCP server is a Windows box (our sysadmin doesn't like this fact but > that's the way things are right now), and again, our image server is a > CentOS 5.2 VM. Questions: > > 1. is it even possible to use netboot in our present environment (i.e. the > image and dhcp servers are not co-resident)? > 2. if it is possible, then I'm obviously not understanding how to set this > up; I ran si_mkbootserver --localdhcp=n, and it completes successfully; then > I get these prompts: > > "Once you're DHCP server is configured, you should be all set. > Do you want to run si_mkdhcpserver to configure your DHCP server ([y]/n)? " > > I answered 'n' to the question since we already have a dhcp server running. > My (admittedly limited) understand of dhcp is that only a single server may > properly service a network; is that correct? > > Anyhow, booting one of the Sunfires from the network shows "DHCP" and a > spinner; this runs for awhile then returns with "no boot filename received", > which I guess makes sense since our company dhcp server knows nothing about > our image server. > > What do I need to do to get this working without replacing our dhcp server > or moving our image server. Thanks. > > peace, david > > And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. > But the greatest of these is love. > -- 1 Corinthians 13:13 > > For wisdom is more precious than rubies, > and nothing you desire can compare with her. > -- Proverbs 8:11 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > _______________________________________________ > sisuite-users mailing list > sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
