Date: Thu, 13 Apr 95 10:41:13 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: kino@krhm.jvc-victor.co.jp Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, kino@jvc-k4.krhm.jvc-victor.co.jp Subject: Re: diskless booting without FreeBSD's nfsd Message-ID: <9504131641.AA23516@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9504130533.AA24734@sun1.krhm.jvc-victor.co.jp> from "kino@krhm.jvc-victor.co.jp" at Apr 13, 95 02:33:53 pm
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> Is it possiblle diskless booting without FreeBSD's nfsd ? > (for example, with SunOS's nfsd) > I want to put FreeBSD's binary on Sparc Station. > If it is possible, please tell me how to install and what file is needed. You must run bootd on your sparc machine, it must be on the same logical subnet as the BSD box, and the BSD box must: (1) Boot DOS and run "netboot.com", which is built in the BSD kernel sources as "netboot.nohdr". OR (2) Have an ethernet card with a bootp knowledgable ROM installed (this is also in the BSD kernel sources, though you'd have to look for it). The ROM image that you can build will need to be built card specific and will need to be burnt into ROM and the ROM installed in the card. EPROM or PROM or whatever is just fine, so long as the card understands it. In addition, it is likely that you must either relax the security restrictions on the exported directories on the sparc, or you must export multiple directories. You would have to do this for SunOS or Solaris diskless clients as well, the reason being the that the mount requests are performed by the root user, and the root user has ID -2 for the iteration of directories for subdirectory mounts, so unless you export for root access (or on SunOS disable the debug patch in the /etc/rc file), the subdirectory mounts will not be possible for the diskless machine unless they are explicit exports. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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