Changes between Version 38 and Version 39 of WikiStart


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    33= PXE-utilities =
    4 This is a release of the SARA package of utilities that we use to boot our nodes with PXE-enabled network cards. This was developed because we always want to use the PXE-enabled network card as our first boot device. With [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php pxelinux], which is a derivative of [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ syslinux],  you can specify with a PXE configuration file how the node must boot. This configuration is placed in, e.g. ''/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg'' directory.
     4This is a release of the SURFsara package of utilities that we use to boot our nodes with PXE-enabled network cards. This was developed because we always want to use the PXE-enabled network card as our first boot device. With [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php pxelinux], which is a derivative of [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ syslinux],  you can specify with a PXE configuration file how the node must boot. This configuration is placed in, e.g. ''/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg'' directory.
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    66We use this utility for the following purposes:
     
    1212== Setup example ==
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    14 [http://www.sara.nl SARA] uses the following setup for:
     14[http://www.surfsara.nl SURFsara] uses the following setup for:
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    1616 * [http://www.systemimager.org Systemimager]
    17  * [http://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/sali Sali] is a systemimager fork/rewrite
     17 * [http://oss.trac.sara.nl/sali Sali] is a systemimager fork/rewrite
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    19 We have a default setup. The default setup is to boot from hard disk. When a node boots it fetches the default configuration file and the configuration file instructs the node to boot from the hard-disk. At SARA we have developed the following strategy to install a fresh node:
     19We have a default setup. The default setup is to boot from hard disk. When a node boots it fetches the default configuration file and the configuration file instructs the node to boot from the hard-disk. At SURFsara we have developed the following strategy to install a fresh node:
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    2121 1. The ip-address in our setup is known for the new node. So we make a link in the ''/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg'' directory to a pxe configuration file which instructs that it has to fetch the kernel and root filesystem from our boot server, eg:  {{{ 0A000A02 ---> default.node_install (10.0.10.2) }}}