I have almost the same configuration.
In a Netra T1, i have the jumpstart server for Solaris 8 installation, Unattended for Windows installations, and the images and directories for Redhat distributions for kickstart
installations.
I tried to integrate FAI Debian installer into that server, but it seems far too complicated to make all work in the same place. So i installed it into another little server just
for Debian installations.
I even have the software repository for "yum" in the same machine.
Btw, i am using the "linux" boot for Unattended. For me it's a lot better since i have to use a lot of new hardware, and the Linux 2.6 Kernel is really good for detecting.
I am not using exactly PXE, just the DHCP Server in the same Netra T1.
I've had no problems, except for some specific configurations (Adaptec RAID and alike not supported by Linux kernel).
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Allen Eastwood wrote:
This is a brain dump here, so please bear with me…
First off, my hats off to the developers. Being a Solaris admin and spoilt on Jumpstart, this is a great product and you guys have done a superb job!
I’ve got this running on Solaris with Samba, using the Sun dhcp and tftp servers and co-existing with my Jumpstart config. I expect that it could be done on other Unix/Linux variants as well. In my development environment, I’m having to use Windows 2K dhcp server and Solaris/Samba doing the rest.
Issue one – I had to add the “keeppxe” parameter to the default file in pxelinux.cfg. I didn’t dig into why, I just noticed that I wasn’t able to get it to work until I noticed that was the one difference between the universal driver and the others.
Issue two – I’m spoilt on being able to use Jumpstart profiles. In the same way, I wanted to be able to specify different unattend.txt files for different servers. What I ended up doing was adding some code in the install.pl script to look for a file named {last 8 digits of mac}.txt. In the sites directory, I either create symlinks or copies as needed for different unattend files. The code I added is below and not being a perl guy, I’m sure there is a more elegant way to do this.
# Read site-specific unattend.txt, if it exists. if (1) { my $macaddr = $u->{'_meta'}->{'macaddr'}; my $shortmac = substr($macaddr, -8,8); my $uafile = "z:\\site\\$shortmac.txt"; my $site_unattend_txt = dos_to_host ($uafile); print "Using unattend file $site_unattend_txt, if it exists...\n"; -e ($site_unattend_txt) and $u->read ($site_unattend_txt); }
Just to note, the symlinks/files in /tfptboot/pxelinux.cfg have to be in the form of 01-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx, lowercase. In the sites directory, it’s XXXXXXXX.txt, uppercase.
Issue three – I noticed that there’s something in there that’s turning off system restore. I wanted them on, so I just added the srconfig.pl script to my install batch files and didn’t dig much further.
Issue four – This one was real annoying! I’ve got
some old 1U linux boxes that I’m rebuilding as Windows
boxes. They’re built with Intel CA810E motherboards
and using the Intel 82559 10/100 NICs. They seemed to
boot okay with the 3Com universal driver, but after
setup did the first copy and rebooted, I’d get a Code
14 error, not being able to find biosinfo.inf. Digging around in DOS on the hard drive after another
network boot, I could see that a number of the file
names were messed up.
Turns out that I needed the e100b driver, however that
driver does not like emm386.exe. So, build a new
image with emm386.exe removed from config.sys, drop a
new cfg file in pxelinux.cfg and symlinks in /tftpboot
and everything looks to be moving along fine.
All-in-all, I figure it’s pretty great to have all this up and running in a couple of days. Again, hats off to the developers! If anyone ever needs any help setting something like this up on Solaris, feel free to drop me a line.
-Allen
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