[KLUG Members] LTSP without DHCP

[Adam Williams]

>1) Boot from floppy, somehow specifying the address of the terminal server, 
>so it goes straight into a session.

According to Configure.help

IP: kernel level autoconfiguration
CONFIG_IP_PNP
  This enables automatic configuration of IP addresses of devices and
  of the routing table during kernel boot, based on either information
  supplied on the kernel command line or by BOOTP or RARP protocols.
  You need to say Y only for diskless machines requiring network
  access to boot (in which case you want to say Y to "Root file system
  on NFS" as well), because all other machines configure the network
  in their startup scripts.

You can specify the IP to use for an interface on the kernel command line.

So the question is how to specify the command line when booting from a 
kernel image?

Initial kernel command line
CONFIG_CMDLINE
  On some architectures (EBSA110 and CATS), there is currently no way
  for the boot loader to pass arguments to the kernel. For these
  architectures, you should supply some command-line options at build
  time by entering them here. As a minimum, you should specify the
  memory size and the root device (e.g., mem=64M root=/dev/nfs)

Could you use this?  Adding it to /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig 
perhaps...  Might be interesting to try.

On another thought...

Does anyone even know what the heck RARP is?  And does RH come with a RARP 
deamon?  That might be another way around this problem.

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