Re: PXE boot debian-installer
Hi, Alok:
On Thursday 16 April 2009 10:56:21 Alok G. Singh wrote:
> What I want to do is to deploy a dhcp+tftp server in the network that
> people can boot into debian-installer via PXE. The idea is to have an
> easy way to install Debian/Ubuntu without having to cart DVDs
> around.
>
> The DHCP server running on the router assigns addresses in the
> 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. I have setup another DHCP server to respond to
> PXE in the same subnet. Now, how do I make sure the two DHCP servers
> play nice together ? That is, the router's DHCP server should be used
> unless DHCPREQUEST is from a PXE client.
Don't do that. While it *might* be technically possible to make them both
coexist*1 (you don't tell us if the router is another Debian box or it is
a "magic box") it will be real pita. Since you told your router is "dumb",
just configure your Debian system with all the needed stuff (DHCP and TFTP)
and turn off the router's DHCP server.
*1 I'm aware you can have more than one DHCP server to provide avaliability if
you can control them both, but that's a different issue.
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SALUD,
Jesús
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