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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