Re: [Etherboot-users] Does Etherboot support RIS via. PXE?

[Adam R. <ada...@de...>]

Thanks, Tim - yes I would be very interested. At the moment I am using
the standard Windows DHCP server that is part of our Active Directory...

I could set up a local linux dhcp though that just responds to the MAC
of the machine I am trying to get Windows installed on...

Would love to see your config for DHCPD...

cheers Adam.

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 19:54 +0000, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 13:03 +0000, Adam Retter wrote:
> > I am slightly confused as to whether Etherboot supports RIS or not and I
> > have read conflicting accounts on different webpages.
> > 
> > I have tried many different ROM compilation settings for making bootable
> > ISO's. Boot with no sucess so far, I understand that it seems most
> > likely I have to set the options -
> > 
> > PXE_DHCP_STRICT
> > ZPXE_SUFFIX_STRIP
> > 
> > However when I boot the Etherboot image I keep getting the message "no
> > filename in DHCP packet..."
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me simply whether this is possible or not and if so what
> > am I missing?
> 
> I regularly use etherboot to install windows via PXE, I use a plain
> vanilla etherboot 5.4 snapshot (current cvs) with a Linux isc dhcp
> server. I can supply the config file if that helps too.
> 
> Which software are you using as a DHCP server? as the error you are
> seeing indicates that the dhcp server isn't telling the client which
> file to get form the tftp server. 
>