Making a "bootpdless" boot floppy

[Thomas Templin]

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On Monday 28 July 2003 14:10, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
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> I'm in the process of automating the installation of machines
> which are deployed to our clients. Therefore I need to install
> our distribution on lots and lots of machines so getting the MAC
> address of each target and configuring /etc/bootptab accordingly
> is quit painfull. I would like to know if it is possible to make
> a boot floppy which would just get an IP from a DHCP server,
> then boot on my nfs root. Ideally the server IP address would be
> hardcoded into the boot floppy.
> Is this possible?
AFAIK, yes.
A boot kernel is on your boot floppy media. So there is no need for 
a BOTP Server and a dhcp should be enough to give a client 
IP--address for NFS install.
Bye,
Thomas
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