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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: Clarence.Chu@f132.n700.z6.ftn.air.org (Clarence Chu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: How to use netboot.com?? Date: 1 Jun 1994 00:23:46 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 47 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <770399413.AA05853@f74.n700.z6.ftn.air.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu TO: etxsral * In a message originally to All, etxsral@hal.ericsson.se said: >From: etxsral@hal.ericsson.se (Lars Nilsson) >Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions >Organization: Ericsson >I'm trying to set up diskless boot with Freebsd 1.1 and >compiled the netboot.com program and tried to run it from >DOS but nothing happens and the pc locks up. >How should I use netboot.com ? >-- >Lars Nilsson >Senior Specialist - Data Communication >Ericsson Telecom AB , Stockholm - Sweden >Phone: +46 8 719 7308 , Fax: +46 8 719 1255 >--- > * Origin: Association for Internet Resources: e-mail >info@air.org (6:700/74.1) hi lars, netboot.com work on my configurations. and the author may be reached at martin@innovus.com are you sure you are using WD80x3 NIC? have you modified base address at wd80x3.c? have you prepared configurations at the boot server? viz, tftpd+bootpd have you prepare bootp.tab at the boot server? have you prepared cfg.???.???.???.??? by running diskless_config at the boot server? prepare /etc/exports with root=0? done kernel configurations with ed0 with proper address/irq/ioaddr and with "options DISKLESS"? are you using WD card or emulation of WD-mode? file size of compiled netboot.com is about 7-8K only, isn't it yours? if you are to use FreeBSD as the boot server, be reminded it use secure tftp. <client>:root prepared? such as <client>:root/etc/fstab. so much to say.... clarence ... * Origin: BiG (since 87) - a BBS for programmers (6:700/132)