Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 20:38:30 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: dfr@nlsystems.com, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How difficult is it to make a netbootable installation? Message-ID: <86048.926793510@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 May 1999 16:46:56 %2B0100 (BST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905151644310.509-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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> You need to arrange to load the alpha netboot program from tftp which will > then load the kernel via NFS. The file needed for tftp should be in > /boot/netboot in the release. I use the following dhcpd configuration to > netboot my alpha. You should place the kernel in an NFS exported > directory and point the root-path at that directory. Excellent, thanks. With the help from you and Andrew Gallatin I'm now up and running 4.0-19990413-CURRENT on a floppy-less Alphastation 200. Installation was actually fairly painless. A suggestion: It would be a good idea to remind people to activate the ttyd0 entry (or possibly do this automatically, if it can be detected that installation is done via a serial console). Now to try a "make buildworld" with slightly more current sources... Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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