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

[esmith <esmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

esmith wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
>  >     I will do some testing on my LAN to see if it is possible to run 
> separate
>  >     IP and BOOT services, for those situations where one already has 
> an IP
>  >     server (e.g. cable or dsl modem) and only wants additional boot 
> services.
>  >
>
> If there is a better way to deal with this I'm all for it, but this is 
> why I suggested prompting for an IP range. If someone is already using a 
> router for dhcp but the router doesn't support the more advanced options 
> needed for pxe-boot ( like mine ), someone could run two dhcp servers on 
> different IP ranges. There would be no address collisions and any 
> machine that does a lan-boot can be directed to the correct dhcp server 
> for pxe-booting.

Scrap that idea. I forgot the only way to have two dhcp servers on one subnet is to 
configure them both with MAC address filtering and that's far too inconvenient and 
sometimes simply impossible.