Date: Mon, 20 Jan 97 15:17:35 CST From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: Tor.Egge@idt.ntnu.no, phk@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netboot and kernel bootp Message-ID: <199701202117.PAA13259@solaria.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <199701201830.TAA14662@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Jan 20, 97 03:14:23 pm
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> Hi, > > I am at a good point in cleaning up the netboot/kernel bootp code > so that booting can be done without using TFTP (I have this already > running). This makes configurations easier since you don't have to > mess up with tftp, and also the netboot code is smaller since it > needs not to implement TFTP. I just need a bit of advice on the > overall design. What are you doing, if not tftp? Related, sorta: I built a prototype "xkernel" type xterminal configuration for FreeBSD that boots off of a floppy and NFS mounts a minimal amount of stuff off of a file server. It's a little ugly but works fine. I avoided the whole TFTP thing too, mainly out of necessity, since I did not see a way to make a de-based netboot without lots of work. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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