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Broadcast the next server for mobile NetBoot?
2012-07-22, 18:57 (This post was last modified: 2012-07-22 18:58 by robinsmidsrod.)
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RE: Broadcast the next server for mobile NetBoot?
If you do not control the DHCP server on the network you can't use chainloading. That means you'll have to load iPXE from either CD or USB (or floppy). That boot medium can contain a custom iPXE script using the EMBED= feature in the Makefile. See http://ipxe.org/embed for how to do that. The bigger problem is that if you don't control the DHCP server, and you want the machines to boot from files on your laptop (which has a dynamic IP, most likely) you have a problem of accessibility. Even though the client machines can boot, the target server that is hard-coded into the embedded script will most likely not be available unless you're doing some funky DNS manipulation.
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