On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:12:28PM -0500, Ben LaHaise wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Tom Rini wrote: > > > Er, say that again? Right now, for bootp if you specify "sa=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" > > Linux uses that as the host for the NFS server (which does have the side > > effect of if TFTP server != NFS server, you don't boot). Are you saying > > your patch takes "rp=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/foo/root" ? Just curious, since I > > don't know, whats the RFC say about this? > > Yeah, that's the problem I was trying to work around, mostly because the Er, the problem of having to use sa (which is TFTP server) to specify the NFS server? > docs on dhcpd are sufficiently vague and obscure. Personally, I don't > actually need tftp support, so I've just configured the system to now > point at the NFS server. For anyone who cares, the last patch was wrong, > this one is right. If the RFC doesn't say anything about the format rp= has to be in, this is probably right. Assuming it works. :) -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
