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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: Clarence.Chu@f132.n700.z6.ftn.air.org (Clarence Chu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Diskless booting. Date: 19 May 1994 01:08:16 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 44 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <769327655.AA04963@f74.n700.z6.ftn.air.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu TO: dfr * In a message originally to All, dfr@render.com said: >From: dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson) >Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions >Organization: RenderMorphics Ltd. >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. >-- >Doug Rabson, RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com > Phone: +44 71 266 5090 > FAX: +44 71 266 1623 >--- > * Origin: Association for Internet Resources: e-mail >info@air.org (6:700/74.1) hi doug, i'd tried making freebsd-1.1 as the boot server. freebsd-1.1 use secure tftp, i.e. accessibility of tftp _without_ full path name is impossible. hence you need to modify main.c the path, e.g. /usr/tftpboot before /cfg. tftp and bootps were not included in default /etc/inetd.conf, and add -root=0 in /etc/exports. also, only use "ed0" in NIC configurations, not "ed1". that is. clarence chu ... * Origin: BiG (since 87) - a BBS for programmers (6:700/132)