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author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-03-28 23:42:03 +0000 |
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committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-03-28 23:42:03 +0000 |
commit | 1ca78948e67714dab5ea9e91deec730f17740b9d (patch) | |
tree | bf8b71371e6d9c9a52410b19d867de2643a57367 | |
parent | 40891ce2b25527df642d8d8fc179c6b14eb5bbe8 (diff) |
More complete info on network booting. You need to setup ethers/rarpd
bootparms/bootparamd as well as rbootd. Needs more work.
-rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/hp300/prep | 18 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/hp300/prep b/distrib/notes/hp300/prep index 5f8c686e71f..5d8f1d6f272 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/hp300/prep +++ b/distrib/notes/hp300/prep @@ -70,9 +70,21 @@ manual page on your server system. Once `rbootd' is configured and running, you will be ready to continue. -Make sure that the ramdisk kernel image (`bsd.rd') resides in a filesystem -that is NFS exported to the client. See the manual pages on your server -system if you need more information about exporting filesystems. +Next, add the client to /etc/ethers on your server. For example: + + 08:00:09:04:AA:33 thunder-egg + +Then start `rarpd' on your server; `rarpd -a' should do the trick. + +Finally, you need to add an entry in /etc/bootparams. For example: + + thunder-egg root=myserver:/export/hp300 + +Where myserver is the name of your server machine and `/export/hp300' +is the directory that holds the ramdisk kernel image (`bsd.rd'). +Now run `rpc.bootparamd' and make sure that this directory is NFS +exported to the client. See the manual pages on your server system +if you need more information about exporting filesystems. You are now ready to load SYS_UBOOT. During the client's self-test cycle, press the space bar. Shortly, you should see a menu of possible boot |