From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 21 11:42:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (backplane-inc.SanFranciscosfd.cw.net [206.24.214.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C18F37B443; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:42:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8LIgGG54397; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:42:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:42:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200009211842.e8LIgGG54397@earth.backplane.com> To: Mike Smith Cc: Danny Braniss , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation References: <200009211658.JAA00670@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> In message <200009210648.XAA02252@mass.osd.bsdi.com>you write: :> :> }Mostly I guess I'd really like it to simply save *all* of the DHCP :> }response in the environment. Just "dhcp.xxx" where xxx is the parameter :> }value would probably do it, or we can argue about names for everything if :> }there aren't established names already. :> } :> what's in a name ;-) :> the dhcp.xxx stuff is easy, the problem is that the DHCP options are not :> enough, so im trying to look into defining a FBSDclass ala PXEClient, and :> supplying stuff like usr-ip/usr-path swap-ip/swap-path or whatever. : :You don't need those; you can get them out of /etc/fstab. In particular, :the whole idea of passing the NFS swap details in at this stage is just :*totally* bogus. You can specify swap paritions with dhcpd just fine, just use the the numerical IP: option root-path "999.999.99.99:/"; option option-128 "999.999.99.99:/images/swap"; -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message