From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 29 19:52:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16427 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns0.iticom.net ([207.49.135.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA16407 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:52:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trouble@webfyre.com) Received: from webfyre.com by ns0.iticom.net ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 00:51:47 +000 Message-ID: <35BFD1BF.8DC0DDD0@webfyre.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 20:51:59 -0500 From: "Security Mgr." Reply-To: trouble@webfyre.com Organization: Web Fyre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: Matthew C Sundling , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootdisk References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Matthew C Sundling wrote: > > > I have tried to talk/contact everyone I could think of before writing you > > becuase I realize you get plenty of mail already. I currently have a > > cable modem (Road Runner by time warner) which uses a dhcp client login > > script to open the gateway (don't know the jargon) to the internet. I get > > the same ip lease and the same subnet mask, gatway, dns, etc... everytime > > I log in. The problem is I need to put the dhcp and dhcp client script > > (which I have) into the bootdisk. so then I can install BSD from the > > internet (ftp site). > > In this case, cheat. Use one machine to obtain the lease, then feed the > numbers into the install program. AFAIK RoadRunner leases are quite long, > so it shouldn't expire by the time you get finished. Once installed, > install the isc-dhcp2 port or package and use dhclient out of it to get > DHCP leases. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message OK ... Im a roadrunner user........ OR,..... do what i did..... boot and login normally, dhcp will retain its lease for a period after you reboot... it is addressed via the MAC address of your network card, lease expire after a period of time, nut you can reboot a system, and not loose your lease for a period of time.... basically login normally, then reboot, booting this time from the floppy disk/upgrade disk..... go through all the motions, up till the point where it tries to login to the FreeBSD server, at this point switch windows CTRL-ALT F4, then cd to the mounted directory containing the old root .... cd /mnt/root ..... and ./rrlogin < rrlogin.pwd to just re-login to road runner using the existing script now mounted for the upgrade and continue from there, thats how i got 2.2.7 on my system, from 2.2.6 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message