[H-GEN] RH 7.2 PCMCIA Boot and Dynamic IP address renewal

[Ewan Edwards]

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Don't know about issue 1, but on issue 2, try the following two commands 
while logged in as the super user.

/sbin/ifdown eth0
/sbin/ifup eth0


On Friday 08 March 2002 09:11, Hilton Travis wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> I am about to convert my trusty laptop over from Windows XP to RedHat
> 7.2 and Ximian Gnome Desktop so it will be more at home on my home
> network which is slowly but surely becoming Linuxized.  I have come
> across 2 issues with this:
>
> 1. When I try to boot the laptop using the PCMCIA boot disk (and then
> the PCMCIA driver disk), I cannot get to my web server to install Linux
> (unfortunately, I have a deceased CD-ROM in the notebook).  My 3COM
> 3CXFE575CT NIC is detected, an IP is assigned, and if I hit Alt-F4 I can
> see that the local domain name, dns servers and gateway were retrieved
> successfully, but I cannot get it to see my http install point
> properly.  I keep getting errors (in the Alt-F4 screen) like:
>   transferring http://192.168.69.101//./RedHat/base/updates.img to a fd
>   transferring http://192.168.69.101//./disc1/RedHat/base/updates.img to
> a fd
>   transferring http://192.168.69.101//./RedHat/base/netstg1.img to a fd
>   transferring http://192.168.69.101//./disc1/RedHat/base/netstg1.img to
> a fd
>
> ... and then the report of :
>   File //redHat/base/netstg1.img not found on server.
>
> I noticed a second "//" immediately after the ip address of the web
> server, and I *think* this is the issue.  When I installed from the
> network boot disks (not the PCMCIA boot disks) onto another machine,
> from the exact same web server, it worked fine.
>
> Any ideas, because I am really stuck on this one.
>
>
> 2. In Windows, I can type "ipconfig /release" and "ipconfig /renew" to
> release and renew the IP address that has been dynamically assigned to
> the NIC.  I have tried searching for a way to do this on Linux, but have
> so far been unsuccessful.  It seems neither dhcpcd nor ifconfig support
> this functionality, and I thought that dhcpcd would be the obvious
> choice.  Does anyone know of a way to release/renew the IP without
> rebooting the machine?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Regards,
> HiltonT
>
>
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