[debian-knoppix] etherboot problem, nodhcp
i tried etherboot with several different versions of knoppix always with the same result... it loaded the kernel from the server, mounted
the cloop fs, autoconfigured and then it had many many NFS errors and because of that cloop errors. it normaly did not boot to the gui
but showed a console prompt, sometimes not even that.
now after some inspection, it turns out that a second DHCP broadcast is the problem. after autoconfiguring it starts a second
broadcast on the already configured interface that is used by the NFS mount. i'm able to boot the client machine error free when i
specify the cheatcode "nodhcp".
question: would it be possible to alter the knoppix-autoconfigure script so that it does not start DHCP again on interfaces that are
already up?
an additional "if" in the "# Fat-Client-Version" section could test e.g. with
ifconfig | grep -sq $DEVICE #checks if device is already active exit code -> 0: active 1: to be configured
i'm sure this information is also somewhere in the /proc fs, but i dont know where right now.
chris
PS: the mouse cursor on 2003-03-26, in fb800x600 is realy, realy tiny... like halve the size it used to be or even smaller.. other
resolutions seem to be ok, at least fb1280x1024 is ok.
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