Subject: Re: Booting a DNARD over DHCP.
To: Thomas Mainka <thomas.mainka@gmx.de>
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@isc.org>
List: port-arm32
Date: 05/06/1999 13:48:37
> When I boot an older Kernel (1.3.2) the Kernel loads, but hangs when it
> tries to mount "^C" from the server as swap filesystem. How do I tell the
> kernel which NFS-Server and/or directory to use for swap/root? Is there a
> way to configure this through DHCP/BOOTP? I'd like to have the configuration
> in my DHCP-Server so that only authorized (read: root) personnel can change
> it.

Don't depend on DHCP for security - it has none.

WRT the options:

    option root-path "/my/root";
    option swap-server swapserver.my.org;

This is assuming you use the DHCP server, not the bootp server.

			       _MelloN_