Syslinux - Aug 2006 - Passing parameters for the server's hostname/ip to the client?

Hey everyone --

Is there a way to refer to the server with the tftpboot images so that 
when a client is booting diskless, it can mount an nfs directory to that 
tftp server?

That is to say that I have a tftp server on 192.168.0.244.  The usr 
directory is set to be shared amoung the diskless clients via nfs.  In the 
root image, I have /etc/fstab set to something like:
blah
blah
192.168.0.244:/usrnfs /usr ...

But instead of that entry being 192.168.0.244 in there, I want it to be 
more dynamic, something like:
blah
blah
tftpboot_passed_from_pxe:/usrnfs /usr

This is so that if the 192.168.0.244 machine goes down, the engineers 
here can just boot up a secondary server with a copy of the first one and 
not have to edit anything, just boot the secondary server and reboot the 
diskless clients.

Does that make sense? :)

Thanks!
Shaun

Shaun Q wrote:
> Hey everyone --
> 
> Is there a way to refer to the server with the tftpboot images so that 
> when a client is booting diskless, it can mount an nfs directory to that 
> tftp server?
> 
> That is to say that I have a tftp server on 192.168.0.244.  The usr 
> directory is set to be shared amoung the diskless clients via nfs.  In the 
> root image, I have /etc/fstab set to something like:
> blah
> blah
> 192.168.0.244:/usrnfs /usr ...
> 
> But instead of that entry being 192.168.0.244 in there, I want it to be 
> more dynamic, something like:
> blah
> blah
> tftpboot_passed_from_pxe:/usrnfs /usr
> 
> This is so that if the 192.168.0.244 machine goes down, the engineers 
> here can just boot up a secondary server with a copy of the first one and 
> not have to edit anything, just boot the secondary server and reboot the 
> diskless clients.
> 
> Does that make sense? :)
> 
The easiest way to do that is to just use a DNS entry.

	-hpa