On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:25:12PM +0100 or thereabouts, Braun Brelin wrote:
>> Unfortunately, all of the instructions that I'm reading say that I need to
> set up a bootp server
> which requires me to know all of the MAC addresses ahead of time. Is there
> any sort of setup that
> I can use which *doesn't* require me to know the MAC addresses ahead of
> time?
My bootp server running on CentOS4.5 doesn't care about mac addresses. If
anything in the network asks for a boot image, it will supply one. Have a
look at 'Running a network boot linux installation server' on
http://cod.homelinux.org/C/ for the setup I used.
Conor
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