From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 09:31:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA12289 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sam.networx.ie (dublin-ts2-69.indigo.ie [194.125.133.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA12278 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mip1.networx.ie (mip1.networx.ie [194.9.12.1]) by sam.networx.ie (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA05496 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 17:31:57 +0100 X-Organisation: I.T. NetworX Ltd X-Business: Network Consultancy and Training X-Address: 67 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland X-Voice: +353-1-676-8866 X-Fax: +353-1-676-8868 Received: from mike.networx.ie by mip1.networx.ie Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 17:24:13 BST From: Michael Ryan Reply-To: mike@NetworX.ie Subject: Re: Can FBSD be config'd via BOOTP? To: FreeBSD Support Message-Id: Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, Somebody, whose email address I've lost, replied to the above query saying "Sure it can -- look at network booting". Unfortunately, that's not very useful to me. If that person sees this, will you please give me some information on where to look. I've scoured the manpages, looked at /etc/{rc*,netstart,sysconfig} and what not, and can't see any reference to doing this. To repeat the question: I've a FreeBSD2.1 machine with local disks, fully configured, etc. but I want this machine to use BOOTP to acquire its network information, at boot time. By the way, I don't see how /etc/rc allows for this, as it calls /etc/netstart (if it exists) which calls ifconfig... Or, is the trick to delete /etc/netstart? Mike, ---