Unix Revolution

I have my "play" network where I test out a bunch of stuff.  I have a satellite server for testing which handles the DHCP stuff for me.  I just broke that portion of my lab, but I needed to test out Tim Beatty's Beacen product using PXE, a SunRay station. This configuration would not likely be used in a production environment, but I wanted to document how you add "custom" dhcp options (in this case Option 194). PXE, SunRay, Beacen dhcpd.conf #deny unknown-clients; # BEGIN - SunRay stuff option space SunRay; option SunRay.AuthSrvr code 21 = ip-address; option SunRay.AuthSrvr 10.10.31.104; option SunRay.FWSrvr code 31 = ip-address; option SunRay.FWSrvr 10.10.31.104; option SunRay.NewTVer code 23 = text; option SunRay.NewTVer "3.0_51,REV=2004.11.10.16.18"; option SunRay.Intf code 33 = text; option SunRay.Intf "eth0"; option SunRay.LogHost code 24 = ip-address; option SunRay.LogHost 10.10.31.103; option SunRay.LogKern code 2...

Summary: I have wanted to build a kickstart environment which hosted a "rescue CD" or LiveCD to allow you to boot over the network after you blew your stuff up and needed to repair a few things.  Today I have worked through a method of doing so, with the help of the people who published a succinct script with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor.  (the script will be at the bottom of this post - if I have somehow not followed the GPL, please let me know and I will correct whatever is necessary) NOTE/Warning: The boot will fail due the initrd being too large (645mb).  I'm not sure how to proceed.  This procedure worked for RHEVh, because it is quite a bit smaller.  Hopefully I can report back with progress on this? :-$ Procedure: download your LiveCD image to /export/isos/RESCUE/Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso # cd /var/tmp # vi livecd-iso-to-pxeboot (populate the file with the script shown below) # chmod 754 ./livecd-iso-to-pxeb...