Making a "bootpdless" boot floppy

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

> > 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?

Set the ip adress with kernel parameters, then obtain the hostname via
DNS.


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

but then again why don't you pay a little more and use dhcp ;-)


regards,
	Holger

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