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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!demon!minnow.render.com!news!dfr From: dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Diskless booting. Date: 16 May 94 10:30:09 Organization: RenderMorphics Ltd. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <DFR.94May16103009@minnow.render.com> References: <DFR.94May14134313@minnow.render.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: minnow.render.com In-reply-to: dfr@render.com's message of 14 May 94 13:43:13 In article <DFR.94May14134313@minnow.render.com> dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson) writes: > Does anyone have a version of netboot.com which works on SMC Elite > Ultra cards. I have a couple of DOS machines with these cards which I > would like to be able to boot FreeBSD-1.1 on sometimes. > > Has anyone successfully setup a diskless system from a FreeBSD-1.1 > server - it should be possible but the docs all talk about a Sun > server. Rather than waiting, I went ahead and started hacking. I now have a version of netboot.com which appears to work on my SMC Elite Ultra and I managed to get the machine to boot diskless. The only problem I had was when the diskless client tried to read its configuration file cfgX.Y.Z.W using tftp. The FreeBSD tftpd refuses to allow the transfer unless the filename is absolute. As a quick hack, I changed tftpd to add "/tftpboot/" to the front of all relative filenames. Perhaps netboot should use an absolute patch. -- Doug Rabson, RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 71 266 5090 FAX: +44 71 266 1623