Hello, I am trying to set up a (half)diskless workstation, but I ran in to a problem. I made a bootdisk with boots and loads the ethernet card. My server is running portmap and I am able to mount a nfs on my server.
As LILO optionsfor the bootdisk I have tried: append="nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/nfsboot nfsaddrs=192.168.1.4:192.168.1.1::foo:eth0:none" where 192.168.1.1 is my server and I would like that 192.168.1.4 is my client with name 'foo' at eth0 with, explicitly NO autoconfiguration. The thing I do not get is that when booting, the kernel DOES try to get the addresses from a DHCP or RARP server. Because I do not know why this happend, I tried to install dhcp on the server with simple configuration: default-lease-time 600; max-lease-time 7200; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255; subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.1.4 192.168.1.100; } and I start it. Seems ok, but the client is still not receiving its addresses and on the server there is also no action to be seen. When running a nmap I also do not see a dhcp or bootp port open, and also /etc/inetd.conf shows now dhcp entry. ps aux shows that it is running. What is going on and how can I make it work? Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan