Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 16:45:11 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Diskless booting - netboot.com problems? Message-ID: <199503152145.QAA23792@goof.com>
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All I have to do is build the netboot.com and copy that to a dos partition
right? Why are netboot.com.strip and netboot.com.nohdr there? Do I need to
use one of them? Whenever I run netboot.com on a DOS machine, it just hangs.
I've snooped packets off the ether it's sitting on and nothing comes out. I've
tried this on a machine with an SMC card, and on another machine with a 3c503
card. I have no clue what I'm doing wrong. Here's a look at the files I have
setup (the server is Solaris 2.3):
/u1 ->
mmead->
rootfs->
vision (includes all of /)
swapfs->
vision (has one file: swap.198.82.168.29)
usrfs->
vision (includes all of /usr)
in /tftpboot:
cfg.198.82.168.29
the host is vision - and its ip is 198.82.168.29
here're the contents of /etc/dfs/dfstab:
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# place share(1M) commands here for automatic execution
# on entering init state 3.
#
# share [-F fstype] [ -o options] [-d "<text>"] <pathname> [resource]
# .e.g,
# share -F nfs -o rw=engineering -d "home dirs" /export/home2
share -F nfs -o rw=vision -d "diskless FreeBSD diskspace" /u1/mmead/rootfs
share -F nfs -o rw=vision -d "diskless FreeBSD diskspace" /u1/mmead/swapfs
share -F nfs -o rw=vision -d "diskless FreeBSD diskspace" /u1/mmead/usrfs
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here're the contents of /tftpboot/cfg.198.82.168.29:
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ip 198.82.168.29
hostname vision.ctr.vt.edu
server 198.82.168.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
rootfs 198.82.168.1:/u1/mmead/rootfs/vision
swapfs 198.82.168.1:/u1/mmead/swapfs
swapsize 20000
autoboot
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Does anything look wrong with that? Why should netboot.com hang a machine?
Thanks for any help in advance!
-matt
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