[ANNOUNCE] DragonFly BSD Installer RC1
Adrian Nida
nida at musc.edu
Wed Jun 30 14:08:27 PDT 2004
Quoting Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode at 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
<Snip/>
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
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