On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:02 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > Some stuff will fail without "next-server" as well. If you're not booting over ethernet, you won't need it. And, even then, you may not need it. Taken from the dhcpd.conf man file from FC4, below, the requirement may change depending on your circumstances, but the purpose won't. The next-server statement next-server server-name; The next-server statement is used to specify the host address of the server from which the initial boot file (specified in the filename statement) is to be loaded. Server-name should be a numeric IP address or a domain name. If no next-server parameter applies to a given client, the DHCP server’s IP address is used. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.