Re: Large-scale debian installation, request help
--On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 3:10 PM -0800 "Joey Hess" <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
> Dan Jacobowitz wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:17:09PM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
>> > 1) NFS does not live well with dhcp (at least dhcpcd package) because
nfs
>> > mounts the filesystems BEFORE dhcpcd is launched. May be there is
another
>> > alternative ?
>>
>> Perhaps we need to move dhcpcd earlier in the init sequence?
>
> NFS root mount is before boot. Ie, before init is run.
What you need, it seems to me, is a DHCP-driven RARP server. Then, the
kernel could boot up with the correct IP address already.
Does such a thing exist? If not, it wouldn't be hard to code - RARP is
trivial.
Jules
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