From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 8 19:41:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26354 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:41:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26324 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:41:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA14697; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:41:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:41:39 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Matthew Dillon Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ Message-ID: <19990208194139.A14650@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199902090032.QAA63869@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <19990208183146.D13488@relay.nuxi.com> <199902090334.TAA40672@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <199902090334.TAA40672@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:34:16PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > :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. > > I'm not sure I follow this. FreeBSD's kernel can be compiled up as > a BOOTP client too. Sorry, add to that, and their "sysinstall" offers it as an option. Some people on campus have said they have been able to install RH Linux using the BOOTP option on the Linux boot floppy. Others have said it didn't work for them. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message