Toomas Tamm wrote:
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:49 -0800, James wrote:
Christian Meissner wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:14:58AM -0800, James wrote:
Is there anyway for me to set the hostname manually on the bootfloppy so it
knows to pull the certain class definitions without a dns record?
afaik you can append HOSTNAME=foobar to grub command line
br
Chris
well that set the hostname alright but it didn't pull the class
definition... i'm a bit confused now.
i set grub to append the ip=:::::dhcp nfsroot=127.x.x.x:/srv/fai/nfsroot
HOSTNAME=TEST
Some time ago I had success with the following:
(this goes into three lines in menu.lst on the boot floppy):
title FAI-HOST01 2.6.8-fai
kernel (fd0)/vmlinuz-2.6.8-fai root=/dev/nfs ip=::::host01::dhcp
nfsroot=192.168.104.228:/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot
FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,syslog
savedefault
The hostname would be "host01" in this case. DHCP assigned an IP
address, but no other support from the university data center was
needed.
I had a bootfloppy with similar three-line sets for all the hosts in the
computer classroom, and chose an appropriate hostname at boot time. This
worked.
More than a year has passed, and new versions of almost everything came
out, so things may have changed. Give it a try.
Thanks for the tip with the manual ip= directive. That definately
worked. I might just edit the make-fai-bootfloppy script to make it
easier to edit
-James
