Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:15:29 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Message-ID: <19981007001529.A18576@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199810062326.QAA07881@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 04:26:05PM -0700 References: <199810062326.QAA07881@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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> One problem is how to identify the hostname. Since it is currently ... > An idea I came up with is: > > (1) During boot, machine picks an IP address (at random) in a certain > range Use DHCP. Solaris 2.6 even sets the hostname from the DHCP querry. Check RFC's 2131, 1534, 2132, and 1542 to see if you can't get a lot of th info you will need from the DHCP server. > What do you guys think? Am I totally off the mark? Would be a cool thing to have available to others. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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