Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007, Installation Manual

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8 Add another option (
next-server
) and set its value to the address of the TFTP
server.
9
Select OK and Finish to complete the DHCP server configuration.
To configure DHCP to provide a static IP address to a specific host, enter the Expert
Settings of the DHCP server configuration module (
Step 4 (page 62)) and add a new
declaration of the host type. Add the options
hardware
and
fixed-address
to
this host declaration and provide the appropriate values.
Setting Up a DHCP Server Manually
All the DHCP server needs to do, apart from providing automatic address allocation to
your network clients, is to announce the IP address of the TFTP server and the file that
should be pulled in by the installation routines on the target machine.
1 Log in as
root
to the machine hosting the DHCP server.
2
Append the following lines to your DHCP server's configuration file located
under
/etc/dhcpd.conf
:
group {
# PXE related stuff
#
# "next server" defines the tftp server that will be used
next server ip_tftp_server:
#
# "filename" specifies the pxelinux image on the tftp server
# the server runs in chroot under /srv/tftpboot
filename "pxelinux.0";
}
Replace
ip_of_the_tftp_server
with the actual IP address of the TFTP
server. For more information about the options available in
dhcpd.conf
, refer
to the
dhcpd.conf
manual page.
3 Restart the DHCP server by executing
rcdhcpd restart
.
If you plan on using SSH for the remote control of a PXE and Wake on LAN installation,
explicitly specify the IP address DHCP should provide to the installation target. To
achieve this, modify the above-mentioned DHCP configuration according to the follow-
ing example:
Remote Installation 63