On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 10:08:18PM -0400, Dan J Fraser wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to boot a diskless (well, floppy) machine using dhcpd's bootp
> functionality.

Well.

I read the source nfs_bootdhcp... and found a way to get around my troubles.

host wallmount {
  hardware ethernet 00:80:AD:B0:9B:68;
  fixed-address wallmount.capybara.org;
  server-name "192.168.1.1:/var/export/wallmount/root";
}

This works.  But it's a nasty hack.  

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