On Wed, April 23, 2008 14:10, John Carter wrote: > So I was wondering about rolling out distros to lots of PC's via netboot.
I have had a similar experience. I have a router for my cable modem. It has DHCP for the PCs on my home LAN. I built a machine that had no hard drive (an MP3 player for the lounge), and it would get its boot image from my server. I had to have a DHCP server on my server as well as on the router, or the MP3 player could not get an IP address. Incidentally, it is important to remember that there two DHCP requests in this situation, and they are independent: 1) Client boots, needs boot image, uses DHCP to get IP address and server 2) boot image is copied from server to client 3) image is booted 4) as part of the boot process a DHCP request for an IP address is made So the DHCP request in step 1 is independent of the request in step 4 (although the boot image could have a fixed IP address, so a second DHCP request would never happen). This means that the IP address (and hostname) of the running client may be different to the IP address from the original boot request. Or something. A
