Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 11:28:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation Message-ID: <200011041928.LAA62802@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <200011041759.eA4HxWv67962@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> from John Hay at "Nov 4, 2000 07:59:32 pm"
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John Hay writes:
| > You don't, it is done via the bootp or dhcp record option 128 for example
| > option option-128 "192.168.2.254:/usr/work/netboot";
| > You then have to make the swap file in that directory of format
| > swap.<IP of client>
| > Use dd to create the file by copying /dev/zero for the size you want.
| >
| > Note during boot up the kernel will tell you what it is using for
| > swap via this request.
|
| The option-128 confuse the pxeboot program. If I put
|
| option root-path "/export/diskless";
| option option-128 "10.1.2.3:/export/shark";
|
| in the dhcpd.conf file, pxeboot tries to mount /export/sharkM-^[^B-i?
| as the root filesystem. Removing the option-128 line at least get me to
| boot albeit without swap.
Root path should have the IP address of the server such as:
option root-path "192.168.2.254:/usr/home/ambrisko/netboot";
Then in boot messages you should see:
rootfs is 192.168.2.254:/usr/home/ambrisko/netboot
swapfs is 192.168.2.254:/usr/work/netboot
Doug A.
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