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| author | Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@redhat.com> | 2006-09-28 10:21:24 -0400 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-09-28 10:21:24 -0400 |
| commit | 16f02908736ff0b89accb25be50d66deadb4cd62 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f7526523555f67e4745cd612269614a9576d452 /NEWS | |
| parent | b3d278188a784b364a5bb080eb1737a29af81d56 (diff) | |
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- Update NEWS to reflect experimental nature of new dhcpd.conf and PXE
features.
- More work on the "remote push" ability for cobbler to modify running
metal.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 17 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@ -0.1.2 +0.2.0 -New PXE features +** New dhcp.conf templating and IA64 PXE features ** Cobbler now contains an experimental dhcpd.conf templating feature. Read the manpage, and if you want to use it, back up your existing -dhcpd.conf before enabling that feature. It is off by default. +dhcpd.conf before enabling that feature. It is *OFF* by default. When using that feature, dhcpd.conf can associate MAC addresses with hostnames (as defined from cobbler), and cobbler can -also differentiate between IA64 and x86/x86_64 network boots. +also differentiate between IA64 and x86/x86_64 network boots. Each +time cobbler sync is run, it will build a new dhcpd.conf based on +/etc/cobbler/dhcpd.template. + +Cobbler is now packaging ELILO to enable IA64 booting. + +Since I do *NOT* currently have access to an IA64 machine, IA64 PXE support +is largely untested, therefore there may be some issues with the way +elilo's *.conf files are formatted in /tftpboot after running a "cobbler sync". +Bug reports and patches from IA64 users are greatly appreciated. |