fai without dhcp

[Henning Glawe]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:24:23AM -0700, Dale Harris wrote:
> Is it possible to use FAI without dhcp?  Basically have a cluster, but I
> don't presently control the network, the addresses are provided by dhcp,
> but I don't have any control over that server and the net admins are
> pretty busy/unresponsive.  So basically I'm looking for a way to work
> around that little problem.
you can circumvent this by using bootfloppies. if used with option 
-s <hostname>, it generates a kernel command line containing the data 
necessairy to mount the nfsroot.

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henning