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Re: Newbie question




>I'm attempting to set up a diskless LINUX box.
>
>I've follwed the Diskless-HOWTO, built a boot floppy, installed and
>configured DHCPD, and built a root tree under /tftpboot.
>
>The floppy boots Etherboot, searches for a DHCP server, finds on, gets
>its address, and attempts to load whatever I have specified.  It then
>times out and sleeps.  My guess is that it is looking someplace other
>than where I expect.

Did you set up tftpd? DHCP is only for getting config info, for the
actual image loading, TFTP is used.
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