From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 22 21:34:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA15055 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA15041 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:34:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06319; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:34:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:34:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Andrew Westrate cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diskless boot In-Reply-To: <199709222022.QAA25284@nor.engin.umich.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Andrew Westrate wrote: > > I am trying to set up a network which will have all of the clients do a > diskless boot from the main server. I've completed setting up tftpd and > booptd as the FreeBSD handbook says to do, but the handbook doesn't say much > about setting up netboot.com. I've finished compiling it, but what do I have > to do to have the client computers run that at startup, rather than starting > FreeBSD from their own hard drives, as they usually do? You burn it onto a EEPROM and stick it on the Ethernet card. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo