Hi, I'm having a "small" problem concerning PXE installation. The installation and everything works fine But as it comes to a reboot of the machine the installation starts again. Ok that's still ok, because the pxe setup has to be changed to local boot for the client. But I don't want to do it by hand, cause for more than 200 clients it is a litle bit to much work. In the autoyast manual it is recommended to check the syslog for an initial transmitted RAM disk. The problem is that I can't find the appropriate line, even if I start the tftp-servecie with -v option. Could anyone give some advice, how to configure the tftpd and how to scan the syslog (example shell/perlscript ??)? Any help would be appreciated. cheers fp +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie | | Abt.1 (wissenschaftliche DV) | | | | Frank Pascher | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Auf dem Huegel 69 Tel.: +49 (228) 525 359 | | 53121 Bonn Fax.: +49 (228) 535 229 | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Email: mailto:fpascher@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de | | WWW: http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de | | PGP Fingerprint: 13D1 8C86 57B3 2850 F158 4879 E5F3 7E20 | +----------------------------------------------------------+
Hi, This is a common and known issue with auto-installation in general. The easiest and cleanest way I can think of is serving the profile using a web server with php for example. If the profile is served, you can detect the client IP using PHP and do any needed modifications on the server using scripts on the web server. It should not be that difficult to create such a solution. As far as TFTP is concerned, I use atftp and it shows exactly what ws served in /var/log/messages. Regards, Anas * Frank Pascher <fpascher@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> [Feb 05. 2003 11:15]:
Hi,
I'm having a "small" problem concerning PXE installation.
The installation and everything works fine
But as it comes to a reboot of the machine the installation starts again.
Ok that's still ok, because the pxe setup has to be changed to local boot for the client.
But I don't want to do it by hand, cause for more than 200 clients it is a litle bit to much work.
In the autoyast manual it is recommended to check the syslog for an initial transmitted RAM disk.
The problem is that I can't find the appropriate line, even if I start the tftp-servecie with -v option.
Could anyone give some advice, how to configure the tftpd and how to scan the syslog (example shell/perlscript ??)?
Any help would be appreciated.
cheers fp
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Hi, the problem with PXE-Loop is solved. First of all thanks for all the comments. As a result of this I changed over to atftpd, because of the fact that we will install more than 200 clients via this system over night. The result is a small perl script which compares atime and ctime of the pxe-file. As soon atime is newer than ctime the file is deleted. This script will be run via cron/atd every 15 minutes. That's it, small and simple. :-)) The first approach was to monitor the /var/log/messages. But this wolud result in to much checks, before you whether the file has been served or not (date, client IP). The next thing would be that I never know how big this file will get. Who knows what ever and how much gets logged to that file ? :-) So I skipped that. The approach Anas tried is ok, but we have tftpd/dhcp on a different server than autoinstall. So his approach would not work. for a single server solution it would be ok. As soon I finished the script I gonna post it here. Anas if you like to put the script into the documentation you're welcome. (With a small hint to my person :-)). cheers frank +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie | | Abt.1 (wissenschaftliche DV) | | | | Frank Pascher | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Auf dem Huegel 69 Tel.: +49 (228) 525 359 | | 53121 Bonn Fax.: +49 (228) 535 229 | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Email: mailto:fpascher@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de | | WWW: http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de | | PGP Fingerprint: 13D1 8C86 57B3 2850 F158 4879 E5F3 7E20 | +----------------------------------------------------------+
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