Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:13:43 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> To: Peter Haight <peterh@sapros.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing with no floppy. Message-ID: <99Nov1.160839est.40397@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199911010447.UAA00901@wartch.sapros.com> References: <199911010447.UAA00901@wartch.sapros.com>
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On 1999-Nov-01 15:47:58 +1100, Peter Haight wrote: >My DEC box doesn't have a floppy. How can I get FreeBSD on there? If you have a SCSI CD-ROM, boot from that, otherwise you can netboot over Ethernet. Brief netbooting description is: On your boot server: - Extract netboot[1] from /boot and place in suitable spot for tftp. - Configure tftp to allow your DEC box to read netboot. - Configure BOOTP[2] as appropriate to tell your DEC box to boot netboot. - Extract kernel.gz from the 2.88MB boot floppy image. Put it somewhere where it can be read from the DEC box via NFS. - Have the rest of the install kit suitably to hand. On your client: - At the SRM prompt, type `boot -p bootp -fl a ewa0' after a suitable delay, you should be presented with the install screen. You should also check out http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/netboot.html [1] Old versions of the SRM are broken in a variety of ways. The most popular is that they require the MAC address to be hard- coded in netboot. This can be done with a binary editor and a hex calculator if you don't have an Alpha build environment to hand. The Multia SRM is broken in ways that are incompatible with the standard netboot (let me know if this will affect you). [2] The SRM always uses BOOTP. Old (3.2-RELEASE and earlier, I'm not sure about 3.3) versions of netboot [mis-]used DHCP - requiring you to configure a DHCP server. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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