Dynamically change ip address on boot up
 

I have a stand alone system that is running RH 8.0 Kernal ver. (2.4.18-24.8.0) using grub bootloader 0.92. on a 32 MB compact flash card. My connection to this box is via COM1 Hyperterminal. I need to use this box in 2 different locations and I have been trying to modify the startup scripts to include a simple menu system to set the boxes ip address with the appropriate ip depending on the location. Is there a way to do this either in the grub.conf, inittab, or network script files???? The echo command does not show up in the startup script files.

Thanks in advance!

man ifconfig

Not a joke... the answer is really in there.

Cheers!

What I do is to append a variable
LOCATION="suchandsuch"
in lilo, and then evaluate that from
the startup-script :}

Cheers,
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