Is DHCP server absolutely required - new FAI user

[Patrick Cervicek]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Karthik Kambatla wrote:

> I assume ip=dhcp suggests acquiring an IP address from the existing DHCP
> server. However, the machines are already assigned static IPs and the DHCP
> server doesn't assign any. Wouldn't that be a problem.

According to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt the 
syntax is: 
ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>

instead of ip=dhcp you could try with ip=192.168.1.100
(You should talk to your IT department before using any IPs to avoid 
collisions)

But you can try ip=dhcp. Some IT department also maintain a dhcp pool with 
static IPs wich corresponden to the MAC adresses of your static machines.