From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 4 10:59:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24726 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:59:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24694 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:59:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA00491; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806041652.JAA00491@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Luigi Rizzo cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mbouget@club-internet.fr Subject: Re: tftp in bootp process In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 08:21:47 +0200." <199806040621.IAA08871@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 09:52:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > tftp is not used anymore in the diskless boot process. Unfortunately the > > > documentation (especially, the handbook) has not been updated. The > > > best source of documentation is the netboot(8) manpage. > > > > Ah, last time I looked at the netboot sources, it still fetched and > > read the configuration file. The netboot(8) manpage was stolen from > > on this you are right, but the tftp stuff is only a relic of the past > and probably has been left in for backward compatibility only. In my > local copy of the sources I have #ifdef'd out this section of code > for a long time. Your sources are obviously not in general use. 8) > > NetBSD and never updated. It doesn't describe the (primitive, Sun > > -inspired) NetBSD diskless environment very well, and its applicability > > to FreeBSD is even less. I quote from netboot(8) just for perspective: > > > > In phase 2, the boot program loads a kernel. Operation in this phase de- > > pends on the design of the boot program. (The design described here is > > the one used by Sun and NetBSD/hp300.) The boot program: > > > > I can't imagine what this manpage is doing apart from confusing people. > > Which manpage are you looking at ? The one attached below is from > a stock 2.2.6-RELEASE . Bizarre. I was reading the one on my laptop, which is running -current as of a month or so ago. However you're quite correct - the netboot manpage elsewhere is completely different; MHA. Weird. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message