AW: two servers: dhcp priority

[Karl Goetz]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 02:15 +0100, Anton Kaser wrote:
> Hi,
> 

> 
> A setup with 2 Network Cards in the Edubuntu Server is not possible, because
> the clients must be able to boot XP or Edubuntu without any Pluging.
> 

you can configure the clients to boot off the server, and present a
screen which says 'type windows to boot xp, and type ubuntu to run
ubuntu' (or whatever yours says).
ubuntu netboots, windows boots the hdd.


eg:


|| To boot into Microsoft Windows, type in "windows" without the quotes
|| at the boot: prompt and press <enter>
|| To boot into Ubuntu GNU/Linux, type in "ubuntu" without the quotes
|| at the boot: prompt and press <enter>
|| Default selection is to boot Ubuntu.
|| The system will start in 15 seconds if no input is detected.

(i removed the fancy formatting).

then your pxelinux config has something like

DEFAULT ubuntu
TIMEOUT 150
PROMPT 1
DISPLAY cic0.msg

LABEL ubuntu
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND ro initrd=initrd.img quiet splash

LABEL windows
    LOCALBOOT 0


in it (this is on a dapper system - i dont know if gutsy works the same)
kk

> toni
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: edubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:edubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] Im Auftrag von Uwe Geercken
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2008 15:41
> An: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Betreff: Re: two servers: dhcp priority
> 
> 
> I thought this was the case. the problem is, that I am not allowed to  
> mess around with the windows stuff and the network. so I disconnect  
> the windows server from the switch and hook up the edubuntu server.  
> that works.
> 
> and maybe it is ok this way, so nobody can say "the network does not  
> work its the fault of linux", as people tend to do sometimes.
> 
> tks.
> 
> uwe
> 
> Quoting Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>:
> 
> > hi,
> > On Do, 2008-01-17 at 13:20 +0100, Uwe Geercken wrote:
> >> as you are talking about dhcp. when you have two dhcp servers in one
> >> network, which one is picked up first.
> > the one that replies first .... its totally unpredictable which one that
> > is as this is influenced by the network load, response speed of the NIC,
> > system load of the server etc.
> >
> > just dont run more than one in one network its guaranteed to break ...
> >
> > ciao
> > 	oli
> >
> 
> 
> 
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