Re: [ANNOUNCE] DragonFly BSD Installer RC1

[Adrian Nida <nida@xxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 30.06.2004, at 19:59, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > 	the network phase:
> > 	- one way to do it is to try DHCP and see if the computer gets an IP 
> > adress, but! how to communicate that address to the user doing the 
> > install?
> 
> small server (snmp?) that reports to broadcast queries? + client for 
> querying

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Why not just have the computer publish its hostname through DNS?  Then, after 
the next DNS update, the installer surfs to dragonfly.my.domain.tld.  I know 
15 minutes is a long time to wait to install something, but it seems (to me) 
like an easy way to "fix" this.  Of course, I'm probably missing something :-S

Adrian