From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 4 16:26:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7506D14C0F for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 16:26:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.212]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990904232856.WBMC2478302.mta2-rme@wocker> for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 11:28:56 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 11:25:24 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: new install over DHCP connection Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Message-Id: <19990904232856.WBMC2478302.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If someone has a DHCP connection and is going to be installing via FTP, what's the easiest way to do this? It seems to be a chicken and egg situation. This is especially true if you have a connection on which your IP address changes with every connection. The easiest solution I can think of is to first download the /bin directory to your box and install from that. But then you need DHCP so you need to install that too. Does this process get easier under 3.3? -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm unix @ home - http://www.unixathome.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message