Hi, I've been trying to make a boot disk for my cable modem to be able to install SuSE from the ftp site. As there seems to be no support for dhcp in the install program itself, I've had the useful idea (?) of getting the kernel to do this beforehand. However, I've had little luck in getting it to work. I supply the boot param ip=dhcp and the kernel starts the lookup. This then just times out and dies. eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Sending DHCP requests .,??..... timed out! IP-Config: Reopening network devices... IP-Config: Complete: device=eth0, addr=213.105.119.110, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=213.105.119.254, host=213.105.119.110, domain=, nis-domain=(none), bootserver=0.0.0.0, rootserver=0.0.0.0, rootpath= A little further on the first line is repeated, but with no following lines. My question is, will the dhcp do this? Or is it designed soley for use with diskless machines? And if it should work, does anyone have anything like this working? Cheers for any help, Tom ps Are there any women who read this list? Not that I'm trying to meet any, just investigating the apparent male dominance where linux is concerned :) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com