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authorFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>2006-12-26 19:46:26 +0000
committerFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>2006-12-26 19:46:26 +0000
commit35aa54a022ca3fac5b1c91993e5bdaef2ad7ea57 (patch)
treec4035051ef1619ff3843f41bdfe03a51300bc4f6 /en/install-methods/tftp
parent51959569398f7226ac8d19c9d534d21953bb144a (diff)
downloadinstallation-guide-35aa54a022ca3fac5b1c91993e5bdaef2ad7ea57.zip
- All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove the "supports-dhcp" condition
- According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP - Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2) - tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples
Diffstat (limited to 'en/install-methods/tftp')
-rw-r--r--en/install-methods/tftp/bootp.xml10
-rw-r--r--en/install-methods/tftp/dhcp.xml19
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/en/install-methods/tftp/bootp.xml b/en/install-methods/tftp/bootp.xml
index cda0f9c66..f0b0eab42 100644
--- a/en/install-methods/tftp/bootp.xml
+++ b/en/install-methods/tftp/bootp.xml
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
<sect2 condition="supports-bootp" id="tftp-bootp">
- <title>Setting up BOOTP server</title>
+ <title>Setting up a BOOTP server</title>
<para>
There are two BOOTP servers available for GNU/Linux. The first is CMU
<command>bootpd</command>. The other is actually a DHCP server: ISC
<command>dhcpd</command>. In &debian; these are contained in the
-<classname>bootp</classname> and <classname>dhcp</classname> packages
-respectively.
+<classname>bootp</classname> and <classname>dhcp3-server</classname>
+packages respectively.
</para><para>
@@ -61,11 +61,11 @@ By contrast, setting up BOOTP with ISC <command>dhcpd</command> is
really easy, because it treats BOOTP clients as a moderately special
case of DHCP clients. Some architectures require a complex
configuration for booting clients via BOOTP. If yours is one of
-those, read the section <xref linkend="dhcpd"/>. Otherwise, you
+those, read the section <xref linkend="dhcpd"/>. In that case, you
will probably be able to get away with simply adding the
<userinput>allow bootp</userinput> directive to the configuration
block for the subnet containing the client, and restart
-<command>dhcpd</command> with <userinput>/etc/init.d/dhcpd
+<command>dhcpd</command> with <userinput>/etc/init.d/dhcpd3-server
restart</userinput>.
</para>
diff --git a/en/install-methods/tftp/dhcp.xml b/en/install-methods/tftp/dhcp.xml
index fb9c624ea..39327ae23 100644
--- a/en/install-methods/tftp/dhcp.xml
+++ b/en/install-methods/tftp/dhcp.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
<!-- retain these comments for translator revision tracking -->
<!-- $Id$ -->
- <sect2 condition="supports-dhcp" id="dhcpd">
+ <sect2 id="dhcpd">
<title>Setting up a DHCP server</title>
<para>
One free software DHCP server is ISC <command>dhcpd</command>.
-In &debian;, this is available in the <classname>dhcp</classname> package.
-Here is a sample configuration file for it (usually
-<filename>/etc/dhcpd.conf</filename>):
+For &debian;, the <classname>dhcp3-server</classname> package is
+recommended. Here is a sample configuration file for it (see
+<filename>/etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf</filename>):
<informalexample><screen>
option domain-name "example.com";
@@ -32,9 +32,6 @@ host clientname {
}
</screen></informalexample>
-Note: the new (and preferred) <classname>dhcp3</classname> package uses
-<filename>/etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf</filename>.
-
</para><para>
In this example, there is one server
@@ -48,7 +45,7 @@ file which will be retrieved via TFTP.
</para><para>
After you have edited the <command>dhcpd</command> configuration file,
-restart it with <userinput>/etc/init.d/dhcpd restart</userinput>.
+restart it with <userinput>/etc/init.d/dhcpd3-server restart</userinput>.
</para>
@@ -79,11 +76,11 @@ subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
}
group {
- next-server 192.168.1.3;
- host tftpclient {
+ next-server 192.168.1.3;
+ host tftpclient {
# tftp client hardware address
hardware ethernet 00:10:DC:27:6C:15;
- filename "/tftpboot/pxelinux.0";
+ filename "pxelinux.0";
}
}
</screen></informalexample>