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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-dc.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does freebsd have bootp? Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:11:03 -0400 Organization: University of the Virgin Islands Lines: 24 Message-ID: <329B0887.167EB0E7@jnet.vi> References: <32988BA3.2781E494@qlink.queensu.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: backen.uvi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Jake wrote: > > Does FreeBSD have bootp? Can I use it to boot another computer with > freebsd over a network? > I have two computers capable of running freebsd, two 3com 3c503 net > cards, but only one hard disk. > If I make a bos dootdisk, and then run nb3c503.com from it, will I be > able to boot from the other FreeBSD box? > The handbook says this has only been tried with HP and Sun boxes as the > server. > There are several BOOTP daemons available for FreeBSD. I use the Internet Software Consortium's DHCPD v5.9BETA server, since it does DHCP as well as BOOTP. I think you will need more than BOOTP to boot "diskless". You will need a suitable network interface that has a boot ROM on it. -- | John Lucas jlucas@jnet.vi | | Information Technology NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.jnet.vi/jlucas.html |