Re: Large-scale debian installation, request help
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:29:43AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Joey Hess 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.
>
> Isn't it done via initrd? If so, put the dhcpc/bootpc before
> that.
Maybe, but the kernel can do it too. The kernel can use BOOTP to
obtain its address, too. Pretty cool.
Hamish
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