Making a "bootpdless" boot floppy

[Geert Stappers]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:06:35AM +0200, Aur?lien G?teau wrote:
> Le Lundi 28 Juillet 2003 17:59, Thomas Templin a écrit :
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks for the answer, I tried it. It's almost ok, the only thing I need is a 
> way for the client to tell its hostname to the DHCP server, so that FAI reads 
> the correct file in the "class" dir. I imagine there is some kind of 
> "hostname" option to pass to the kernel, but I can't find it.
>
> Any idea?

Use BOOTP or pay the price for not using such protocol.

> 
> Regards,
>   Aurélien
> 

Geert Stappers