Making a "bootpdless" boot floppy

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le Mardi 29 Juillet 2003 10:06, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit :
> 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?

I RTFMed a little bit and found out how to tell the host name as kernel 
parameters, thanks to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt.

Regards,
  Aurélien