[syslinux] Passing parameters for the server's hostname/ip to the client?
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Aug 21 16:33:33 PDT 2006
Shaun Q wrote:
> Hey everyone --
>
> Is there a way to refer to the server with the tftpboot images so that
> when a client is booting diskless, it can mount an nfs directory to that
> tftp server?
>
> That is to say that I have a tftp server on 192.168.0.244. The usr
> directory is set to be shared amoung the diskless clients via nfs. In the
> root image, I have /etc/fstab set to something like:
> blah
> blah
> 192.168.0.244:/usrnfs /usr ...
>
> But instead of that entry being 192.168.0.244 in there, I want it to be
> more dynamic, something like:
> blah
> blah
> tftpboot_passed_from_pxe:/usrnfs /usr
>
> This is so that if the 192.168.0.244 machine goes down, the engineers
> here can just boot up a secondary server with a copy of the first one and
> not have to edit anything, just boot the secondary server and reboot the
> diskless clients.
>
> Does that make sense? :)
>
The easiest way to do that is to just use a DNS entry.
-hpa
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