From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 11:39: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871B137B4C5; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:39:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (ipamzlx.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.54]) by ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9VJeZw01319; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:40:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:40:35 +0100 (CET) From: "O. Hartmann" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: diskless boot failures with PXE 2.0 boot, diskless X11 Terminal Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. I do some tests on a diskless machine and I get no success on it. I have to install a bunch of diskless X11 terminals (custom made) based on standard hardware. As NIC we have Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100+ adaptors (fxp). They have all the same freshly updated PXE boot PROM (flash) version 4.0.12 from Intel (PXE-standard 2.0). I already set up bootp and tftp (as I did this three years ago using netboot image to boot several PCs into a diskless workstation, that worked well!). I use now this NIC without success using bootpd and tftpd on a FreeBSD box, but with success with ISC DHCPD. Why? Is PXE explicitely using some advantages of DHCP or is there a configuration trick in bootptab? I want to use bootp and tftp because it's standard in FreeBSD. Thanks for helping ... Oliver - MfG O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver-Abteilung des IPA IT Netz- und Systembetreuung Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 D-55099 Mainz BRD/Germany Tel: +496131/3924662 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message