which arch to boot?
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Mon Aug 11 18:15:23 UTC 2008
John Ellson wrote:
> It would be nice if I could mix i686 and x86_64 (and ppc ...) ltsp
> machines on the same net.
>
> Is there a way that PXE can tell the DHCP server what architecture the
> cpu is? Can Etherboot do it?
>
> Recording all the MAC addresses on the server sounds like such a pain,
> and running
> multiple physical lans not much better.
>
> John
There is no way to differentiate i686 and x86_64 machines by DHCP alone.
MAC addresses or physical network isolation would be your only options.
The default /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf has some PPC detection stuff in it.
However nobody has told me if it works, and zero work has been done on
actually making a Fedora PPC /opt/ltsp/ppc chroot installable yet.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436917
(ltsp) Implement ppc .ks file for ltsp-build-client
I cannot prioritize working in this myself, but I am willing to accept
patches.
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
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