Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Wakko Warner wrote:
> > Personally, for diskless machines which boots the kernel directly (no lilo,
> > no syslinux, etc) this is a good thing. (Or atleast I believe so) I've
> > never used ip autoconfig using arp except once where I had a digiport server
> > that would do this but not bootp. Anyway, I atleast hope that bootp
> > autoconfig isn't removed from the kernel for this reason.
>
> Anywhere that a kernel image exists, an initrd image can exist.
Except for very low memory diskless machines.
sizeof(rs support + initrd support + ramdisk size) > sizeof(kernel_bootp)
Regards
Andrzej
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