From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 31 12:44: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F243037B479; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:44:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp241.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9VKfrf18118; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:41:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:42:54 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "O. Hartmann" Subject: RE: diskless boot failures with PXE 2.0 boot, diskless X11 Termi Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31-Oct-00 O. Hartmann wrote: > 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. PXE uses DHCP, so you will have to use the DHCP server. > Thanks for helping ... > Oliver > - > MfG > O. Hartmann > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message