On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 20:41, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > > 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? > > You can put the ISOs on different file systems or even servers, and then > just use the pxeos tool (from the system-config-netboot package) to > configure the server location, and where on that server the particular > OS is located. > > The actual kernels and initrd are located on one server. You can have > multiple directories under /tftpboot, each with a kernel and initrd for > the OS you want to install. Of course, it's all served out with tftp > and dhcp. > > Sooooo, I'm sure you could use NFS mounts under /tftpboot to distribute > the OS installs to various machines, but maintain the single pxe boot > config files on one server. > > Having said that, I haven't ever tried this. Not sure if pxe boot will > work across NFS (don't see why not). Actually, I think that's how LTSP > works, so you should be okay. I guess that's not an unreasonable amount of work, but some of the systems are k12ltsp where the thin client boot images are likely to change as a result of a 'yum update' on one system or another. Maybe I can play with the automounter and symlinks under /tftpboot to /net/othermachine/tftpboot/... so they are automagically mounted when needed. I thought I saw a network version of grub a while back that had a more generic approach but it doesn't seem to be popular. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
