I am pretty sure that freeDOS has a dhcp client. Google for freedos and you
will find it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henning Fehrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:37 AM
Subject: BIOS
Hello everybody,
we are interested in flashing a BIOS image and in manipulating the NVRAM
of the motherboard
automatically.
Unfortunately, using certain vendors, the access to the NVRAM is not
straightforward.
These vendors are offering DOS tools only, to write in the NVRAM, hence,
we have to boot
a DOS image and here starts the trouble.
Optimally, using the DOS environment flashes the BIOS, sets the
NVRAM and sends a message to the FAI server to prepare the next boot of
the clients for the
installation.
This means, we need networking under DOS. In particular, we are looking
for a DHCP client.
Has somebody experiences with this?
In the worst case, the DOS environment is working autonomously and the FAI
server is 'guessing'
whether the BIOS is flashed or not, e.g., by analyzing the DHCP logs, but
this is not what we really want.
Regards
Henning Fehrmann
