[Infrastructures] Installation using PXEboot but not booting system with DHCP

[John Borwick]

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David A. Ulevitch wrote:
[...]
> How do people install with PXEboot but then boot off the hard drive  in
> subsequent reboots.  Different network?  Special BIOS tricks?
> 
> A related question, how do you then PXEboot in the future if you want 
> to reinstall a box that has an already working disk (but a programmer 
> hosed, for example)?
[...]

This is pretty insecure, I guess, but when we create our PXELINUX
configuration file in /pxelinux.cfg on the TFTP server, we make the file
world-writable.  In the %post section of our kickstart we have the
machine overwrite its configuration file on the TFTP server, so that the
machine will boot locally.

A regular process then clears out all the TFTP configuration files that
are world-writable.

Yours,
John
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           John Borwick
       Systems Analyst Lead
      Wake Forest University | web  http://www.wfu.edu/~borwicjh
      Winston-Salem, NC, USA | GPG key ID             0x797326D5

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