Re: Is there a way to install DragonFly via network (w/o CD) ?

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16.10.2004, at 11:06, esmith wrote:
> I think that the worst situation that might occur is a normal user, 
> who doesn't want to lan-boot, will have their IP lease expire and then 
> receive a new IP, and lease, from our lan-boot dhcp server. This new 
> IP lease will expire who knows when? This could then leave the user 
> scratching their head wondering why they suddenly can't "see" the 
> internet any longer, or other subtle problems like IP address 
> collision where software continues to work but will perform poorly 
> with little or no reported errors. If it's reasonable, when writing 
> code I usually go out of my way to avoid potential problems like this 
> but, you might be right that this degree of safety is unwarranted.

this shouldn't happen as the dhcp server is being setup in a way that 
it only serves data for PXE/Etherboot/DragonFly clients.

cheers
  simon

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