Re: Goal to support DHCP for Ethernet install?
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:25:29 -0800 (PST), garrick@acm.org said:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
>> It's on the todo list:
>>
>> /usr/src/boot-floppies/todo: [...] - [10/20/1998, wichert] Not
>> only BOOTP but also DHCP support [...]
>>
>> but I haven't started working on that yet. Patches are welcome, of
>> course. :-)
> Ok, I'll bite:) I have a DSL connection that uses DHCP and a spare
> 486 box I can easily use for testing boot/install floppy. I'm
> willing to take a shot at a DHCP patch. I have a couple of
> questions though. How does the boot floppy work for development?
The direct developers use CVS. Otherwise, get the newest
boot-floppies package and patch from there.
> Is there a source tree for all of the utilities that it needs that
> get built and then a "install" that writes an image file for
> testing? I've never created a boot/install disk before, but if you
> can point me to somewhere I can RTFM I'd be happy to get started.
Install boot-floppies, the goto /usr/src/boot-floppies/README
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