Dan J Fraser wrote:

> 
> Hi. I'm trying to boot a diskless (well, floppy) machine using dhcpd's bootp
> functionality.
> 
> My dhcpd.conf entry for the machine looks like this:
> 
> host wallmount {
>   hardware ethernet 00:80:AD:B0:9B:68;
>   fixed-address wallmount.capybara.org;
>   option root-path "192.168.1.1:/var/export/wallmount/root";
> }

I'm not a great DHCP user, but I've got something like:

    server-name "192.168.1.1"	# Actually the DNS name, not IP address for me.
    option rootpath "/var/export/wallmount/root"

and not a combined entry for rootpath.

Simon.