From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 8 19:34:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25355 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25349 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:34:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id TAA40672; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:34:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:34:16 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199902090334.TAA40672@apollo.backplane.com> To: "David O'Brien" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ References: <199902090032.QAA63869@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <19990208183146.D13488@relay.nuxi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :> Or would you rather have FreeBSD be like RedHat, where you have to :> install an RPM for just about everything? : :Actually RedHat's boot floopy has a BOOTP client and thus the Linux :weenies on campus don't have the bootstrapping problem the FreeBSD users :do. : :-- :-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) I'm not sure I follow this. FreeBSD's kernel can be compiled up as a BOOTP client too. I use it all the time for my diskless ( well, floppy-only ) workstations. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message