From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 18 22:55: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C24D14F15 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 22:55:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichman@twcny.rr.com) Received: from twcny.rr.com ([24.95.188.113]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 0-53939U80000L80000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 01:54:13 -0400 Message-ID: <37BB9E3B.C80BBB15@twcny.rr.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 02:03:40 -0400 From: "Mark S. Reichman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Fremantle Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DHCP and Bootstrapping References: <19990818223241.29140.rocketmail@web214.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is what I'm doing.. Doesnt mean its correct... -Current has it in a conf file. I think rc.conf.. -Stable does not.. Hence this... mark@slugo:/usr/local/etc/rc.d:>cat roadrunner.sh #!/bin/sh #Makes a connection.. or attempts to make a connection.. to roadrunner #internet services. Beep-Beep... echo "Connecting to Roadrunner ISP..." echo /sbin/dhclient xl0 /usr/local/bin/rrd -u Andrew Fremantle wrote: > > First off, yes I know the two questions are totally unrelated :) > > Please snip accordingly when responding... > > 1) What/Is there a "proper" way to specify the use of DHCP for ed0 on startup > in 3.2-RELEASE? I know it can be hacked in, and I have identified several > spots where that could be done, but if there's a proper way i'd like to know > about it. > > 2) My FreeBSD box is currently running on a somewhat glitchy 2GB Sumsung drive. > I have a rock solid 2.5GB Quantum drive coming back from loan soon, and i'm > going to be moving the system over to that. I've done this with Linux before, > but never with FreeBSD. What additional concerns are there? I am aware of the > need to watch /etc/fstab very closely, and make sure it stays accurate to the > way the system will be the next time it boots up. The thing i am very uncertain > about it bootstrapping the new drive. This was done on the Samsung at install > time by sysinstall, how do I do it after install on a new drive? > > Please make sure I receive an email of your reply, I am not currently > subscribed to the list. > > Thanks. > > === > "Binaries may die but source code lives forever" > -- Unknown > > SkyHawk > Andrew Fremantle > starslab@yahoo.com > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message