Hi, On Thu, 10 May 2007, Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> > NB: some PXE clients I've found ignore the next-server directive. Just > > something to watch out for -- particularly with an on-board network card > > that does PXE. > > Unfortunately that is the case with my clients. It works fine for the > vmclient but not the physical ones. > > Is there any way around that. Will using the group setting help? If the PXE client ignores next-server, then I suspect it will always attempt to download its kernel from the dhcp server that answered its initial request. Our way around this (when it mattered) was to disable the existing network card and put in a fully PXE-capable card. I guess you could do that just for one or two machines to get going. Martin Herweg sells a card for Eur22 with a PXE-capable etherboot rom and the disklessworkstations guys sell them too. http://www.lug-marl.de/kmLinuxTSE.html http://disklessworkstations.com/ Given that you're just testing, you could put a second NIC in the server and let the VM's DHCP server run on that NIC. However, this means running an entirely separate network for your testing edubuntu clients which is probably not ideal. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
