On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Mark Evans wrote:
At this point, our configuration tool comes in: the workstation (or server) will locate a source of configuration rules and proceed to install any necessary additional software and set up any required configuration. Assuming that all workstations in a school are identical, this means that you just define the workstation configuration as the default. Servers may have particular roles, so you would often need to specify their identity. This is done by typing "fen id=
" instead of just "f" at the boot floppy screen. If you wanted to be really flash you could probably do this by DHCP options :)
Am planning to. Only problem is the initial creation of the DHCP reservations: it's extremely tedious to do this by hand and counter-intuitive to have to find out the MAC address on the target machine, then create a reservation, then install the target machine. I'm therefore planning to allow for a method of creating DHCP reservations that is controlled from the target machines. In essence, specifying an "id=" tag at install time will trigger the creation of a DHCP reservation. On a bit of a tangent: I have managed to use DHCP to allocate computer names to Win2000 boxes. Win2K rollouts are now down to around 10 keypresses, although the method is based on Ghost and so is flawed for reasons I have outlined elsewhere. Michael