[Fai-commit] r5154 - in trunk: debian man

[lange at alioth.debian.org]

Author: lange
Date: 2008-09-16 13:00:44 +0000 (Tue, 16 Sep 2008)
New Revision: 5154

Modified:
   trunk/debian/changelog
   trunk/man/fai-chboot.8
Log:
fai-chboot.8: add example for using templates, add link to pxelinux
documentation

Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog	2008-09-16 12:08:22 UTC (rev 5153)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog	2008-09-16 13:00:44 UTC (rev 5154)
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
   * fai-chboot.8, fai-cd.8, ainsl.1, fai.8: apply patches from Colin Tuckley
   * THANKS: add Colin
+  * fai-chboot.8: add example for using templates, add link to pxelinux
+    documentation
 
  -- Thomas Lange <lange at debian.org>  Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:08:17 +0200
 

Modified: trunk/man/fai-chboot.8
===================================================================
--- trunk/man/fai-chboot.8	2008-09-16 12:08:22 UTC (rev 5153)
+++ trunk/man/fai-chboot.8	2008-09-16 13:00:44 UTC (rev 5154)
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 .\"                                      Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
-.TH fai-chboot 8 "7 September 2008" "FAI 3.2"
+.TH fai-chboot 8 "16 September 2008" "FAI 3.2"
+..
+.\"
+.\" File Name macro.  This used to be `.PN', for Path Name,
+.\" but Sun doesn't seem to like that very much.
+.\"
+.de FN
+\fI\|\\$1\|\fP
+..
+
 .SH NAME
 fai-chboot \- manage the network boot configuration files
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -24,7 +33,8 @@
 .B fai-chboot
 -I [OPTION]... HOST...
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-This command creates the configuration files for network booting.
+This command creates the configuration files for network booting using
+pxelinux and DHCP.
 
 KERNELNAME is the file name of the kernel that will be booted. This
 kernel will mount the root filesystem via NFS. You can add
@@ -147,20 +157,32 @@
 .TP
 fai-chboot memtest86+ atom02
 The host atom02 will boot the memory test. Install the package
-memtest86+ and copy the executable memtest86+.bin to /srv/tftp/fai.
+memtest86+ and copy the executable memtest86+.bin to /srv/tftp/fai
+without the .bin suffix.
 .TP
 fai-chboot -o default
 All hosts, that do not have a PXE configuration for their IP-address
 will do a localboot, i.e. booting from local disk.
+.TP
+fai-chboot -vc lenny64 james007
+This command will tell the host james007 to use the template called lenny64.
+Beforehand, you have to manually create the template 
+and save it to /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg/lenny64.tmpl.
 
+
 .SH NOTES
 Currently only PXE boot is supported. BOOTP configuration can be
 managed using the tlink utility.
 
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .br
-This program is part of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation).  See the FAI manual
-for more information on how to use fai-chboot.  The FAI homepage is http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai.
+\fBfai-mirror\fP(1)
+.TP
+.FN /usr/share/doc/syslinux/pxelinux.doc.gz
+The pxelinux documentation.
+.TP
 
+This program is part of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation). See the FAI manual for more information on how to use fai-chboot. The FAI homepage is http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai.
+
 .SH AUTHOR
 Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de>