During imaging, I am going to be grabbing information for our database such as BIOS service tag from Dell, MAC address, etc.
I may be asked if I can also supply the battery pack serial number. I've noticed that I can get part of the battery info from under /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info . The 2.4.26 kernel linked on the udpcast website doesn't include ACPI support, so I'm trying to compile my own kernel. I've had limited success. I've done this sort of thing before, just not for a PXE boot environment.
I need to be able to support the ipappend 1 option in default, and this requires the config option "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration" and DHCP/BOOTP under it. I'm not sure what network file system options must be provided. I don't really need to mount anything on NCP/NFS, etc, but just a normal PXE boot using initrd. I saw the sample config file for floppy based boot, but it was not close enough for what one needs in a PXE boot.
--Donald Teed