Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 09:52:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 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 Message-ID: <199806041652.JAA00491@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 08:21:47 %2B0200." <199806040621.IAA08871@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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> > > 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
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