Re: Profile based installation (not based on MAC address or hostname)

2009-09-09 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
>> If you've got that far, then the rest is easy. Just let the tftpserver >> supply an additional parameter (like "FAI_PROFILE=DESKTOP") and use this >> parameter in a class/ script to define the according classes. > Right. I believe I would do this with the fai-chboot command. I can't > see an op

Re: Profile based installation (not based on MAC address or hostname)

2009-09-09 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:07:02 +0200, Peter Bittner > said: > It's good to be reminded though (thanks Michael Goetze!) that there > still *is* the possibility of interaction. In the FAI context you tend > to forget about this... :-) Yep, normally FAI like to be _fully_ autom

Re: Profile based installation (not based on MAC address or hostname)

2009-09-09 Diskussionsfäden Peter Bittner
Hi, On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 19:33 +0200, Thomas Neumann wrote: > I think that's doable, but you're operating in a limited timeframe. So far > i haven't seen a pxe-bootclient that doesn't timeout. I'm not sure if this is a problem for us: we are planning to have the client PCs request a bootloader a

Re: Profile based installation (not based on MAC address or hostname)

2009-09-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
hiya Peter Bittner schrieb: > (Sorry in advance if this question is completely basic and I should have > found out myself... I didn't find a solution in the documentation.) > > I need to set up a FAI server that provides a - what I believe - rather > flexible installation service based on profiles

Re: Profile based installation (not based on MAC address or hostname)

2009-09-08 Diskussionsfäden Michael Goetze
Hi Peter, > i. Create an entry in the /etc/.../dhcpd.conf (maybe /srv/... may be a > better place in future as the file will grow in size) adding an entry > for the MAC address and the specified IP address and host name; > ii. Use fai-chboot to create a network boot configuration profile for >

Profile based installation (not based on MAC address or hostname)

2009-09-08 Diskussionsfäden Peter Bittner
(Sorry in advance if this question is completely basic and I should have found out myself... I didn't find a solution in the documentation.) I need to set up a FAI server that provides a - what I believe - rather flexible installation service based on profiles, not on host names, or MAC addresses.