E..5 Step 4: Setup Networking

Step 4 is used to collect the MAC addresses of the clients, and then download the disk images to the clients. See the details in Section 7.3.4, page [*].

Figure 14: Beginning step 4 - Setting up networking.
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Figure 15: Further progress in step 4 - Build Autoinstall Floppy.
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Figure 16: Further progress in step 4 - Booting the client.
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Figure 17: Further progress in step 4 - Scan for booting client (DHCP request).
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Figure 18: Further progress in step 4 - Client is broadcasting, in order to acquire MAC address.
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Figure 19: Further progress in step 4 - Scanning network, found first MAC address, then later assigned all MAC addresses.
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Figure 20: Booting the client a second time to download the image.
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Figure 21: Client partitioning disk, setting up the disk tables, and starting to download the image.
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Figure 22: Client downloading and installing the image.
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Figure 23: A client has finished the install and is asking to be rebooted.
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