Re: Where did dhcp go?

From: Davide Bianchi (davideyeahsure_at_onlyforfun.net)
Date: 04/14/05 

Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:34:01 +0200

On 2005-04-14, Michael Hennebry <hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> It just issues reads and writes?

Yes.

> The block sizes just affect how much
> it tries to read and write at a time?

Yes.

>> > How about dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdd ?
> Would this actually work?

Always done this way, never had a problem.

> mkisofs's job is to make such a file
> that corresponds to an ISO file system.

Exactly.

> If I wanted, I could take any 800MB file and pass it to cdrecord.
> If my CD-R is big enough, reading that CD-R back would just
> be a matter of directly reading the correct /dev/* file.

Exactly.

>>>From man cdrecord:

Hummm... my manpage doesn't report that, it does mention readcd
in the 'see also' section.

> It is, ifcfg-eth0:
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp

then it should get his IP by dhcp.

> HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
> Is the fact that I can get to the
> internet evidence that DHCP is running?

Probably yes.

> Is a hostname of stmike evidence that it isn't running correctly?

Don't know your system enough to tell.
Davide 

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