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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation
In-Reply-To: <200011041759.eA4HxWv67962@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> from John Hay
 at "Nov 4, 2000 07:59:32 pm"
To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 11:28:02 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>,
	Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>,
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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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