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Date:      Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:41:39 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/
Message-ID:  <19990208194139.A14650@relay.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902090334.TAA40672@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:34:16PM -0800
References:  <199902090032.QAA63869@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9902081645090.1994-100000@phluffy.fks.bt> <19990208183146.D13488@relay.nuxi.com> <199902090334.TAA40672@apollo.backplane.com>

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> :Actually RedHat's boot floopy has a BOOTP client and thus the Linux
> :weenies on campus don't have the bootstrapping problem the FreeBSD users
> :do.
> 
>     I'm not sure I follow this.  FreeBSD's kernel can be compiled up as
>     a BOOTP client too.  

Sorry, add to that, and their "sysinstall" offers it as an option.
Some people on campus have said they have been able to install RH Linux
using the BOOTP option on the Linux boot floppy.  Others have said it
didn't work for them.

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-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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