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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.announce:78 comp.os.386bsd.development:909 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!agate!usenet From: mckim@dinah.lerc.nasa.gov (Jim McKim) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce,comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: (yet another) new version of diskless nfs boot prom source Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.development Date: 2 Jul 1993 20:31:10 -0700 Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 19 Sender: cgd@agate.berkeley.edu Approved: 386bsd-announce-request@agate.berkeley.edu Message-ID: <9306302128.AA25635@dinah.lerc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.berkeley.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Receipt-To: mckim@lerc.nasa.gov X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Length: 725 Status: R I have placed a new version of the diskless NFS boot prom source on dinah.lerc.nasa.gov in ~/pub/386bsd/netboot.tar.gz. The major enhancement to the code is BOOTP protocol support along with the existing RARP support. The code will work with either protocol, whatever responds first gets its information used. BOOTP has some advantages over RARP: booting via gateways can be done; the boot filename can be defined at the server, rather than in the boot code. I also put a diskless nfs capable kernel (NetBSD 0.8 with the setup patches) and a copy of Martin Renters' setup program and patches in the ftp directory. Unpack the distributed 386bsd on a nfs server, replace the kernel with this one and boot it from a client. -- Please send submissions for comp.os.386bsd.announce to: 386bsd-announce@agate.berkeley.edu