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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