Re: Boot Server Without DHCP

On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 12:41 -0500, Matt McNabb wrote:
> Hi all!
>  
> I have a special need for a boot media that can be used in a multiple
> subnet environment without using DHCP options to find the boot server.
> We have the PXE server option configured on most subnets to find a
> network OS for our thin clients. I am implementing a new imaging
> server and this normally works via DHCP so I need to be able to pxe
> boot to this. My question is, would it be possible to boot to a flash
> drive with gpxe or something similar installed and have it request an
> IP address via DHCP but then have a statically configured entry for
> finding the boot server? Thanks in advance and sorry if this is a dumb
> question!

Best way is to make use of ipxe's new scripting via initrd support that
Micheal has recently put in place.

http://ipxe.org/scripting

-- 
Tim Fletcher <[email protected]>


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