Re: PATCH: boot-time DHCP

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
11 Dec 1999 09:15:16 -0800


Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> writes:

> Doing it by a small user mode program in a initrd is much more sane.
> Near all modern distributions rely on initrd now anyways.

This is not where this is really interesting. Remote booting is
interesting for embedded systems where you have no harddisk and
perhaps not even a floppy disk.

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