Booting The Target System For Installation - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual

11.3.7 Wake on LAN
Wake on LAN allows a machine to be turned on by a special network packet containing
the machine's MAC address. Because every machine in the world has a unique MAC
identifier, you do not need to worry about accidentally turning on the wrong machine.
IMPORTANT: Wake on LAN across Different Network Segments
If the controlling machine is not located in the same network segment as the
installation target that should be awakened, either configure the WOL requests
to be sent as multicasts or remotely control a machine on that network segment
to act as the sender of these requests.
Users of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server can use a YaST module called WOL to easily
configure Wake on LAN. Users of other versions of SUSE Linux-based operating sys-
tems can use a command line tool.
11.3.8 Wake on LAN with YaST
1 Log in as root.
2 Start YaST > Network Services > WOL.
3 Click Add and enter the hostname and MAC address of the target system.
4 To turn on this machine, select the appropriate entry and click Wake up.
11.4 Booting the Target System for
Basically, there are two different ways to customize the boot process for installation
apart from those mentioned under
Section 11.3.3, "Using PXE Boot"
and function keys or use the boot options prompt of the installation boot screen to pass
any boot options that the installation kernel might need on this particular hardware.
146 Deployment Guide
Installation
Section 11.3.7, "Wake on LAN"
(page 140). You can either use the default boot options
(page 146) and