[debian-lan-devel] Network boot configuration (was: Reserved leases for member client machines)

[Afif Elghraoui]

Hi, Andi.

على الأربعاء 21 أيلول 2016 ‫14:00، كتب Afif Elghraoui:
>>   • After installation, the machine boots again into installation
>> >     mode (not sure if this was intended, I thought the idea was to
>> >     switch to local boot after successful installation with 'chboot -o
>> >     <IP>' automatically).
> I did not (intentionally) make any changes to this aspect of the system. 
> I would prefer setting PXE to local boot after successful installation 
> as well, but you had said the static PXE configuration was intentional 
> because the Debian LAN use case was for the hard disk to be the default 
> boot priority [1].
> 
> 
[...]
> 
>> > Perhaps we should first think about what we want to achieve.  A first
>> > idea:
>> > 
>> >   We need add a machine to the system.  This is done with 'debian-lan
>> >   add2dhcp'.  Best case:  this is all needed, and nothing more.
>> >   However, a simple way to re-install is also necessary.
>> > 
>> > Hm, I'm thinking about it.  Any ideas?
>> > 
> Well, since we agree that setting PXE to localboot after installation is 
> a good idea, we can do fai-chboot -o after installation. Then, to set 
> PXE to reinstall, the admin would have to recopy the template: 
> fai-chboot -c workstation.tmpl worstationXX

I'm not sure if you have any comments about what I wrote here. I just
wanted to let you know how I've configured this for my site in case you
might think it's an appropriate approach here. I set the default PXE
boot configuration for member clients as localboot. When a host is
registered with add2dhcp, it gets the usual template PXE configuration.

At the end of installation, `fai-chboot -d <hostname>` runs, which
disables the host's PXE configuration so that it uses the default (which
is localboot). If I want to reinstall a machine, I simply run
`fai-chboot -e <hostname>` and restart it.

Thanks and regards
Afif

> 
> 1. 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-lan-devel/2015q1/000782.html

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