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  • README

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    88The systems can be used to run automated tests. You can also use this 
    9 system only to provision on demand systems. 
     9system only to provision on demand systems or backup your partitions 
     10using partimage or anything you want to do with an automated PXE 
     11system... 
    1012 
    1113The systems must be configured to always boot over PXE. 
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    3335 
    3436- add the systems that you want to control by this system like this: 
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    3538./pxe/addsystem <name> <mac address> [<mac address 2>...] 
    3639 
    3740- set which profile you want your system to PXE boot: 
     41 
    3842./pxe/nextboot <name> <profile name> 
    3943 
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    4246  to use apache instead of the little embedded server. 
    4347 
    44 - then your PXE runs must access the following web page 
     48- then your PXE scripts must access the following web page 
    4549  http://<ipaddr>:<port>/localboot/<mac addr>/ to request a local boot 
    4650  before rebooting else the PXE boot will continue to loop on the same 
    4751  install. 
     52 
     53** Advanced 
     54 
     55- in your auto-install scripts, you can access the current profile by 
     56  accessing the following url: http://<ipaddr>:<port>/profile/<mac addr>/ 
     57 
     58- here is the shell command I use to get the mac address: 
     59 
     60mac=`ifconfig |grep HWaddr|sed -e 's/.*HWaddr //' -e 's/-/:/' -e 's/ *//g' |head -1` 
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