Hands off Install - yes and no

[Carl Karsten]

Carl Karsten wrote:
> I am now watching a box load up the base system from a local server and 
> the only thing I did to it was turn it on.  yipee.
> 
> Here is my pxelinux.cfg/default
> 
> label linux
>         kernel linux
>         append initrd=initrd.gz ramdisk_size=12890 root=/dev/rd/0 rw 
> preseed/locale=en_US kbd-chooser/method=us netcfg/wireless_wep= 
> netcfg/choose_interface=eth1 netcfg/get_hostname= 
> preseed/url=http://192.168.1.22/preseed.cfg --
> 

In case anyone is wondering about netcfg/get_hostname= the trick is to 
send a hostname via dhcpd.conf, which is nice because now each test box 
gets it's own name.

ping-check = 1;
log-facility local7;

option domain-name "sahara.net";
option time-servers  192.168.1.1;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;

option domain-name-servers 63.240.76.4, 204.127.198.4;
option routers  192.168.1.1;

subnet 192.168.1.0  netmask 255.255.255.0 {
         range 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.254;
          }

# Hoary test boxes
group {
	filename="pxelinux.0" ;
	
	# 192.168.1.2 does not exist on my lan.
	# I am setting it like this to make sure the box doesn't find
	# a repo on the net to pull sources from.
	# It would be good I can figure out how to i
	#  limit these setting to the install phase
	#  (including the 2nd part after the reboot )
	
	option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.2 ;
	option routers 192.168.1.2 ;

	host dwl650p {
		hardware ethernet 00:05:5d:5a:81:f0 ;
		option host-name "dwl650p" ; }
	
	# tsp2 6100 - a=wired, b=wifi
	host tsp2a {
		hardware ethernet 00:00:39:fa:ff:f3 ;
		option host-name "tsp2a" ; }
	
	host tsp2b {
		hardware ethernet 00:02:2d:b0:c8:6c ;
		option host-name "tsp2b" ; }

	host tsp1 {
		hardware ethernet 00:00:39:88:31:a6 ;
		option host-name "tsp1" ; }

         host e400 {
		hardware ethernet 00:60:08:b0:62:0d ;
		# fixed-address 192.168.1.181 ;
		option host-name "e400" ; }

        }


Now if only I could pass all the preseed values this way.  That would be 
great.

Carl K