Netbooting Sun 3

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, David Coolbear wrote: Yes. Make sure you also have the Linux box export a root file system over NFS, which is where the install files are. Your Sun is trying to mount that directory as its root, so it can move on to installing on the disk :) For Netbooting xBSD, you need: - rarpd (/etc/ethers) for giving it an IP address - bootparamd (/etc/bootparams) for telling it where to find the root fisk (over NFS) - mountd (/etc/exports) for mounting the NFS disk - nfsd (no config files) for actual NFS I/O I usually have something called /export/OpenBSD/ on my server, where all the OpenBSD files live: /export/OpenBSD /vax /i386 /sparc and point the clients to that in bootparams with a line line: testvax root=vaxlab:/export/OpenBSD/vax where 'vaxlab' is a VAX serving things here. So, the client gets an IP address, and then tries to mount the above. When succeeded, it will continue to load, usually the "bsd.rd" kernel which includes a RAM disk image with just enough brains to set up things. The above is OpenBSD, but since they all share the same code base, I kind of assume this part of them is the same for all. Cheers, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA