RE: [CentOS] pxe menu help

2008-09-03 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I haven't tried esx 3i myself yet, but kickstarting ESX 3 >was similar to red hat kickstart with anaconda and stuff, >I did all my configuration by hand afterwards because of >the trunked/tagged network ports which aren't compatible >with PXE, and I surely didn't want to risk an automated >install

Re: [CentOS] pxe menu help

2008-09-03 Thread nate
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > So instead of leaving it to default routines which can change or may be > unpredictable, > how does one force the mappings of menu assignments when clients connect or > at least > set it in a reliable manner I can document? By MAC address, pxeboot by default will look fo

[CentOS] pxe menu help

2008-09-03 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am trying to setup a series of vmware esx 3i systems to be provisioned by pxe. Since you can pass the extracted config to the hypervisor in the pxe append line as a file on the tftp server, I presume I can use my CentOS DHCP/PXE server to hand out assigned ip's to specific hosts. Thus, I need a