RE: DHCP in the kernel

From: Eric Lammerts (eric@lammerts.org)
Date: Tue Jul 18 2000 - 17:44:46 EST


On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Rob Taylor wrote:
> > > is it still possible to get the root file system over nfs like in 2.2
> >
> > yes.
>
> so how does this work then? I don't see how you can run dhcpch/pump without
> having a root filesystem....

I use netboot (http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot), which passes the ip
number it got (by doing bootp/rarp/dhcp) to the kernel using the
"ip=..." commandline parameter.

Eric

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