[rescue] installing U2 without CDROM - help please!

Mike Parson mparson at bl.org
Wed Jun 15 14:01:49 CDT 2005


On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:19:31PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:11, Mike Parson wrote:
>> I'd shut off DHCPd while you're doing the netboot.
>>
>> rarp (and /etc/ethers) should handle the IPing of the box till the OS
>> is loaded, dhcpd might be grabbing those requests before the (r)arpd
>> does.
>
> Unless you're using some strange (non-ISC) dhcp server, dhcp doesn't 
> answer rarp requests.

Might not have been the rarp part that was messing up, but dhcp
definately does hork it up somehow.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org



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