From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jul 19 15:15:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from comet.connix.com (comet.connix.com [198.69.10.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F9F14EED for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:15:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from booga@comet.connix.com) Received: from localhost (booga@localhost) by comet.connix.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA12918; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 18:12:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 18:12:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Shawn Kelly O Shea Reply-To: shawn@eth0.net To: Doug Rabson Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How about netboot? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I havent actually had FreeBSD/alpha installed yet, so I didnt know there was a /boot/netboot. I grabbed it out of the install bin.?? set w/ tar and tried the netboot. The FreeBSD/alpha SRM loader comes up, and this seems to load the NetBSD/alpha netboot install. I say this, because it complains that "boot: boot device name does not contain ethernet address" and goes on to tell you that in the NetBSD/alpha distro you can code the enet addr into the image w/ the setnetbootinfo command. I checked out FreeBSD bin.?? set again and didnt see this, so I'll have to grab it from NetBSD, see if I can run it on my AlphaServer 300 (another alpha i have running RedHat5.2 right now) and go from there. -Shawn On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Shawn Kelly O Shea wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to netboot an AlphaStation 200 (avanti). I've got bootp (via a > > dhcp server) and tftp server setup. Any ideas how to roll an install bootp > > capable image? > > -Shawn > > Try using /boot/netboot. > > -- > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com > Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- # ifconfig eth0.net "Shawn O'Shea" netmask 255.255.255.0 up # route add -net smtp shawn@eth0.net # route add -net http http://eth0.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message