Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:46:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Matthew C Sundling <sundlm@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootdisk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807291545510.24795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.96.980728155643.132966A-100000@cortez.sss.rpi.edu>
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Matthew C Sundling wrote: > I have tried to talk/contact everyone I could think of before writing you > becuase I realize you get plenty of mail already. I currently have a > cable modem (Road Runner by time warner) which uses a dhcp client login > script to open the gateway (don't know the jargon) to the internet. I get > the same ip lease and the same subnet mask, gatway, dns, etc... everytime > I log in. The problem is I need to put the dhcp and dhcp client script > (which I have) into the bootdisk. so then I can install BSD from the > internet (ftp site). In this case, cheat. Use one machine to obtain the lease, then feed the numbers into the install program. AFAIK RoadRunner leases are quite long, so it shouldn't expire by the time you get finished. Once installed, install the isc-dhcp2 port or package and use dhclient out of it to get DHCP leases. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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