Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-11 Thread Anoop Aryal
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 23:38 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:14:23 -0600 > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > I can't use a dhcp server on this network. These machines are exposed to the > general network which already has a dhcp server and if I add another one I'm > going to cause

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/09/08 17:34, Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:46:31 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/09/08 15:38, Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:14:23 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] And can't you tell DHCP to associate IP addresses to MAC add

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:46:31 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/09/08 15:38, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:14:23 -0600 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > >> And can't you tell DHCP to associate IP addresses to MAC addresses? > >> So even tho

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:38:39PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I can't use a dhcp server on this network. These machines are exposed to the > general network which already has a dhcp server and if I add another one I'm > going to cause trouble over the whole network. Etherboot and others support

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/09/08 15:38, Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:14:23 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] And can't you tell DHCP to associate IP addresses to MAC addresses? So even though OP doesn't want to use DHCP, he'd use it but not for it's usual purpose... I can't us

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:14:23 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/09/08 13:47, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Tuesday 2008 December 09 11:49:42 Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 12/09/08 11:25, Micha Feigin wrote: > >>> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:27:28 -0600 > >>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PR

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2008 December 09 14:14:23 Ron Johnson wrote: >Can't you tell DHCP to associate IP addresses to MAC addresses? I suppose it depends on the server software, but dhcpd from ISC certainly provides that feature though the "fixed-address" and "hardware" directives. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Yes, theoretically that is what I want, but if I'm not mistaken PXE boot is dependent on a dhcp server giving the machine an IP and declaring that it has a boot image to provide, or am I wrong. I want to give the ip as an option and use a give

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/09/08 13:47, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 2008 December 09 11:49:42 Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/09/08 11:25, Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:27:28 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/09/08 09:58, Micha Feigin wrote: I want to setup three machines to bo

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 2008 December 09 11:49:42 Ron Johnson wrote: >On 12/09/08 11:25, Micha Feigin wrote: >> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:27:28 -0600 >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 12/09/08 09:58, Micha Feigin wrote: I want to setup three machines to boot over the network from an nfs ro

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/09/08 11:25, Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:27:28 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/09/08 09:58, Micha Feigin wrote: I want to setup three machines to boot over the network from an nfs root. The network doesn't have a dhcp server (I prefer if it's possible to

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Eric Gerlach
Micha Feigin wrote: Yes, theoretically that is what I want, but if I'm not mistaken PXE boot is dependent on a dhcp server giving the machine an IP and declaring that it has a boot image to provide, or am I wrong. I want to give the ip as an option and use a given nfs server as a root, not resol

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:27:28 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/09/08 09:58, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I want to setup three machines to boot over the network from an nfs root. > > The network doesn't have a dhcp server (I prefer if it's possible to do it > > without one) and the n

Re: NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/09/08 09:58, Micha Feigin wrote: I want to setup three machines to boot over the network from an nfs root. The network doesn't have a dhcp server (I prefer if it's possible to do it without one) and the network card is only supported with newer kernels (2.6.28-rc). Is there a way to do it

NFS boot with a dhcpless network

2008-12-09 Thread Micha Feigin
I want to setup three machines to boot over the network from an nfs root. The network doesn't have a dhcp server (I prefer if it's possible to do it without one) and the network card is only supported with newer kernels (2.6.28-rc). Is there a way to do it through grub or do I need to setup a mini