41 | | The pxeconfig command creates soft-links in the ''/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg'' directory named as the hexadecimally encoded IP-address of the clients, and these links will point to one of the files default.*. As designed, the PXE network booting process will download the file given by the hexadecimal IP-address, and hence network installation of the node will take place. With pxeconfig you can easy create those links for the hosts |
| 41 | The pxeconfig command creates soft-links in the ''/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg'' directory named as the hexadecimally encoded IP-address of the clients, and these links will point to one of the files default.*. As designed, the PXE network booting process will download the file given by the hexadecimal IP-address, and hence network installation of the node will take place. With pxeconfig you can easily create those links for the host(s) |
| 42 | |
| 43 | There are serveral ways to run pxeconfig: |
| 44 | * interactively, network range |
| 45 | * hostname(s) |
| 46 | * host range |
| 47 | * rack and node |
| 48 | |
| 49 | === hostname(s) === |
| 50 | |
| 51 | the following command will make links to the default.node_install: |
| 52 | {{{ |
| 53 | pxeconfig gb-r1n1 gb-r2n1 --filename default.node_install |
| 54 | }}} |
| 55 | |
| 56 | |