Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3242 mails)

[Tom Wesley <tawesley@xxxxxxxxx>]

The whole install needs to be able to use the connection established by the 
dhcp. I tried what you suggested with the writing down values and rebooting 
to no avail. Possibly the ip is getting re-allocated too quickly?
And another machine to be a gateway would be a dream...

On Sunday 23 September 2001 2:11 pm, Nick Zentena wrote:
> On September 23, 2001 06:57 am, Tom Wesley wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Seems a great idea. Anyone any idea how (or if) it works yet? My idea
> > would be a rebuild the kernel on the bootdisk image to allow ftp install
> > by using dchp. Unless someone knows something that I don't to get this to
> > work. Which certainly would not be the first time.
>
> 	Is it just the kernel that needs to include DHCP or the entire installer?
> Depending on your setup you can get DHCP ftp installs to work. When I had
> DHCP with my DSL connection it was really the modem that got the
> connection. So what I could do was boot write down the IP number and other
> information and then reboot into the install program and manually input the
> numbers. The simple way is to just setup a temp gateway machine using
> something like Coyote linux or other simple floppy based linux systems. If
> you have a spare machine or can borrow one you are all set.
>
> Nick

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