From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 13:58:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8963937B406 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:58:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@heorot.1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8217018D9; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F0C518D8; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:55:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Will Senn Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: RE: ftp install question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I think his problem is his dhcp server expects a hostname to be passed to > > it. Does FreeBSD have the ability to do this with the ftp install? > > - Sure does... along with IPV6 too! :) > > So, how do I use the ftp floppies to provide the hostname as a parameter > to dhcp? Is it going to prompt me for extra parameters or am I gonna need > to vi ifup and tack on a -h MYHOSTNAME to pump/dhcpc or something else? http://people.freebsd.org/~rpratt/43/ether_conf.html Shows that you just type in the hostname in the appropriate field. :) (Assuming I'm understanding your question correctly...) http://people.freebsd.org/~rpratt gives step by step installion instructions graphically . :) RIck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message