DHCP in AutoYast

From: Donnelly, John (John.Donnelly_at_compaq.com)
Date: Tue Oct 16 2001 - 23:59:49 CEST 

Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:59:49 -0500
Message-ID: <72A87F7160C0994D8C5A36E2FDC227F54CD78C@txnexc01.americas.cpqcorp.net>
From: "Donnelly, John" <John.Donnelly@compaq.com>
Subject: DHCP  in AutoYast

Hi .

 I'm curious if anyone has configured a SuSE network
  using Windows 2000 Server as the host with SuSE clients
  ( Note that this is not my prefered way of doing it ! ) .
  
  Using the info found in http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoyast1/ ,
  we've built floppies that worked with static IP addresses and
  a NFS install.

  Now, we'ed like to use DHCP but there are two problems:

   1. The client fails to get his local IP address which linuxrc
      is started . It complains that bootp failed then it preceeds
      trying to do a CD install.

       Is linuxrc source avaiable or is it not under GPL ? I'd debug it
       myself if I have to.

   2. Windoz is the server, but we also have another SuSE client for the
NFS
      file system, so it's IP address keeps changing on reboot. Does
      the Server parameter in the AutoYast info file support the concept

      of a host name instead of a hard coded IP address ?

 Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

John.

 

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