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: ----- # 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 ----- here're the contents of /tftpboot/cfg.198.82.168.29: ----- 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 ----- Does anything look wrong with that? Why should netboot.com hang a machine? Thanks for any help in advance! -matt -- Matthew C. Mead -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research - -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration Work Related -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu | mmead@goof.com <- All Other ---- ------- WWW -> http://www.goof.com/~mmead --- -----
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