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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc: config@FreeBSD.ORG, small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Odd idea
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> BOOTP is not necessarily sufficient.  BOOTP does not allow truly
> dynamic configuration, or at least not with the ISC dhcpd.

Remember we are talking about the loader here, for net booting.  Not for
after you've booted.  When net booting you need to tell the loader the
kernel's name and the path to / .  I could be wrong, but I think you
usually would not want these dolled out randomly.  For example:

    host net-install {
	    hardware ethernet 8:0:2b:32:bf:5c;
	    fixed-address 192.168.1.3;
	    option host-name "foo.nuxi.com";
	    option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.2
	    option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
	    option routers 192.168.1.1;
	    option domain-name "nuxi.com";
	    option root-path "/export/freebsd-install";
	    filename "install.bin";
    }

you could of course specify swap here and have a diskless setup.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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