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From: jagnew@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (H. Jared Agnew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: rarpd config??
Date: 6 Oct 1996 21:22:29 -0400
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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I am diskless booting a old workstation, I need to run rarpd to facilitate it.
However I have been reading the man page, and the following lines are
confusing me.
Additionally, a request is honored only if the server
(i.e., the host that rarpd is running on) can "boot" the
target; that is, if the directory /tftpboot/ipaddr exists,
where ipaddr is the target IP address in hexadecimal.
No other rarpd I have seen has had this configuration, I currently
dont have a tftpboot on my root, and I dont want one. I have my bootp setup
to boot files in the /usr/NetBSD directory, and this will also be the place
I NFS mount the diskless machine. If there is a reasoning for this
configuration, in the /tftpboot directory can someone please explain it to me.
If there are any other things that would help me setup rarpd will someone let
me know. Thanks
--- Jared
--jared@vt.edu