how to assign boot file for DHCP server
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Mon Mar 15 11:22:44 UTC 2004
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez wrote:
> --- myothello myothello <myothello2 at yahoo.com>
> escribió: > I had setup a DHCP server successfully. I
> can use a
> > PXE network card at client to get the IP address.
> > But
> > it cannot get the file to boot. I created a netboot
> > file called bootImage using mknbi-dos, not sure can
> > be
> > use. And where can I store it such that client can
> > pick it up. And where can I set the path for the
> > client to pick it up from the server?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Each Linux client must have in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 a line like:
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
>
> And in their boot they will know that they must
> connect their dhcp server and get their private IP.
He doesn't just want an IP...he wants to boot the system from a network
stored OS image.
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