DHCP Question

["Richard P. Koett" <mail-lists@telus.net>]

I am trying to install 3.1 from CD and i386 boot floppy, and keep having
a puzzling thing happen with DHCP.

I'd like to preface this by saying that my ISP (Telus) seems to be
continually having problems providing
reliable DHCP service, so this may not be an OpenBSD issue at all.

What puzzles me is that while booted from the install floppy, the
initial DHCP request always seems to succeed.
However, when I reboot from the hard disk it seems to consistently fail,
as does running dhclient manually after
rebooting from hard disk.

Is there something different about how the DHCP request is being made in
these two instances, or is flaky
DHCP response from my ISP leading me down the wrong path altogether?

Thanks,
Richard P. Koett.