On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:02 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:42, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > > > > > > My bootpxe can install FC3, FC4 (i386/x86_64), FC5 (i386/x86_64) and > > > > CentOS 4 (x86_64). > > > > Once you setup the initial bootpxe configuration, you can have it handle > > > > multiple concurrent configurations. (You'll just need the vmlinuz + > > > > initrd image for each kernel pair + ISO files) > > > > > > How do you control which of those is loaded when you boot a new > > > client? I'd like to do that at the client side - and have a > > > timeout/default to load the ltsp thin client instead of an > > > installer. > > > > > > > Simple: You create a configuration menu > > under /tftpboot/pxlinux.cfg/default (And a boot message file > > in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/boot.msg). > > Once configured, much like lilo, the user can select which kernel (and > > kernel configuration) he/she wants to load. > > http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php#config > > > > Thanks - but it looks like everything has to be on one server > for this to work. I was hoping to let the menu select from > several servers for the actual kernel/initrd load so they > could be maintained separately. Did I miss something or is > that not possible? > I've had a DHCP running on one machine and tftp-server and NFS running on a second machine. The /tftpboot (and kernels; around 10-20MB for ~5 configurations) must sit on the same machine as the tftp-server service... beyond that, everything is can be scattered around the network. (ISO images, NFS, DHCP, etc) Gilboa
