[K12OSN] Doing the Pivot Root - befuddling

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 13:51, Petre Scheie wrote:
> Thanks, Jim.  I added the lines to my dhcpd.conf file, thusly (line 
> numbers added here for clarity):
> 
> 1 host wendolene {
> 2        hardware ethernet     00:20:AF:14:DB:0B;
> 3        fixed-address         172.26.18.5;
> 4        filename              "/lts/vmlinuz.ltsp";
> 5        option option-128 code 128 = string;
> 6        option option-129 code 129 = text;
> 7        option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
> 8        option option-129 "NIC=3c509, 
> MOPTS=nolock,ro,wsize=2048,rsize=2048";
> 9    }
> 
> But when I try to start dhcpd, it says "option definitions may not be 
> scoped." in reference to lines 5 and 6.  I tried commenting them out, 
> thinking they were perhaps just examples of the syntax, but then the 
> client says it can't find the 3c509 module during the modprobe stage.  
> Suggestions?

"May not be scoped" means that the option type declarations have
to be in the global part of the config file, not inside the
{} braces for any particular subnet or hardware address.  Just
move lines 5  and 6 to the top of the file with other globals.
The values for any option (lines 7 and 8) can be different for
each scope, just not the type of the data.

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   Les Mikesell
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