redhat system-config-netboot with fedora core 2

[Steven D. Haughton]

I did get it to work finally.
You have to setup the kernel with these options.

1) Root file system on NFS,  (Turn on 'Kernel level autoconfiguration' 
to get this option to show up)
2) Turn on BOOTP support within the kernel.  You may also want to turn 
on DHCP support.

My problem that I was having is that even though I turned on BOOTP 
within menuconfig it still was not being compiled with that  option.
I final found a solution where I modified the default config file by 
hand to turn on the option.  This was a while back, but I believe this 
is the file I modified.

/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/arch/arm/defconfig

Within that file you must uncomment these to lines and change them from 
'n' to 'y'.

CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y

After that your kernel should compile with those options.  Let me know 
if this helps.

-- 
Steven D. Haughton
Systems Administrator
B213, Bourns College
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Riverside
phone: (951) 827-2451
email: shaughto at ee.ucr.edu



Zach Johnson wrote:

>hey, sorry to bother you again. Was Wondered if you ever made progress on this.
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>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 12:11:15AM -0700, Steven wrote:
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>>I never found a solution to the problem....
>>They needed to move forward with the cluster so they installed fedora on 
>>every node.
>>I'll probably give it another try when they added more computers to the 
>>cluster.
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>>--
>>Steven D. Haughton
>>Systems Administrator
>>Dept. of Electrical Engineering
>>UCR
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>>Zach Johnson wrote:
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>>>I saw you posted to fedora-list.
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>>>I tried copying the disklessrc to rs.sysinit in 
>>>the ramdisk img, but did not help.
>>>
>>>Was wondering if you ever found a solution for this?
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