CentOS virt - Aug 2016 - Updating PXE documentation for CentOS wiki

I was just looking at the CentOS Wiki at
https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup, and it's pretty
seriously out of date. It neglects the existence of the
"syslinux-tftpboot" RPM, and the hand editing of xinetd config files
for tftpd ignores the availability of "chkconfig" and
"service" to
manage that service.

For more sophisticated users, it doesn't mention "never, never, never
set your default menu to install an OS by default, because you *will*
accidentally wipe servers that select PXE boot first before local disk
as their boot media". Nor does it mention the difficulties with PXE
and NAT based virtual host, nor how to verify the TFTP service's basic
operation, nor the difficulty of maintaining multiple PXE configs when
the main rsync mirrors only publish the most recent CentOS.

I'm happy to add that sort of thing to the wiki, but I'm finding the
"Set up an account" page confusing. Is "FirstnameLastname"
supposed to
be your mandated login name?

On 08/18/2016 05:57 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> I was just looking at the CentOS Wiki at
> https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup, and it's pretty
> seriously out of date. It neglects the existence of the
> "syslinux-tftpboot" RPM, and the hand editing of xinetd config
files
> for tftpd ignores the availability of "chkconfig" and
"service" to
> manage that service.
> 
> For more sophisticated users, it doesn't mention "never, never,
never
> set your default menu to install an OS by default, because you *will*
> accidentally wipe servers that select PXE boot first before local disk
> as their boot media". Nor does it mention the difficulties with PXE
> and NAT based virtual host, nor how to verify the TFTP service's basic
> operation, nor the difficulty of maintaining multiple PXE configs when
> the main rsync mirrors only publish the most recent CentOS.
> 
> I'm happy to add that sort of thing to the wiki, but I'm finding
the
> "Set up an account" page confusing. Is
"FirstnameLastname" supposed to
> be your mandated login name?
Yes, FirsnameLastname (CamelCase, no space) is the correct format.


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Thanks. Perhaps that could be made even more explicit, or reject names
that do *not* match that format?

I have my own long-founded opinions about using CamElcAsE for anything.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
wrote:
> On 08/18/2016 05:57 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> I was just looking at the CentOS Wiki at
>> https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup, and it's pretty
>> seriously out of date. It neglects the existence of the
>> "syslinux-tftpboot" RPM, and the hand editing of xinetd
config files
>> for tftpd ignores the availability of "chkconfig" and
"service" to
>> manage that service.
>>
>> For more sophisticated users, it doesn't mention "never,
never, never
>> set your default menu to install an OS by default, because you *will*
>> accidentally wipe servers that select PXE boot first before local disk
>> as their boot media". Nor does it mention the difficulties with
PXE
>> and NAT based virtual host, nor how to verify the TFTP service's
basic
>> operation, nor the difficulty of maintaining multiple PXE configs when
>> the main rsync mirrors only publish the most recent CentOS.
>>
>> I'm happy to add that sort of thing to the wiki, but I'm
finding the
>> "Set up an account" page confusing. Is
"FirstnameLastname" supposed to
>> be your mandated login name?
>
> Yes, FirsnameLastname (CamelCase, no space) is the correct format.
>
>
>
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