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diff --git a/share/FAQ/Diskless.FAQ b/share/FAQ/Diskless.FAQ deleted file mode 100644 index 84af09c..0000000 --- a/share/FAQ/Diskless.FAQ +++ /dev/null @@ -1,130 +0,0 @@ -Setting up a Diskless FreeBSD system -==================================== - -netboot.com/netboot.rom allow you to boot your FreeBSD machine over the -network and run FreeBSD without having a disk on your client. Under 2.0 -it is now possible to have local swap. Swapping over NFS is also still -supported. - -The list of supported Ethernet cards: - - Western Digital/SMC 8003, 8013, 8216 and compatibles - NE1000/NE2000 and compatibles (requires recompile) - - -Setup Instructions ------------------- - - - Find a machine that will be your server. This machine will require - enough disk space to hold the FreeBSD 2.0 binaries and have bootp, tftp - and NFS services available. - - tested machines: - - HP9000/8xx running HP-UX 9.04 or later (pre 9.04 doesn't work) - Sun/Solaries 2.3. (you may need to get bootp) - - - - Set up a bootp server to provide the client with IP, gateway, netmask - - sample entry: - - diskless:\ - :ht=ether:\ - :ha=0000c01f848a:\ - :sm=255.255.255.0:\ - :hn:\ - :ds=192.1.2.3:\ - :ip=192.1.2.4:\ - :gw=192.1.2.5:\ - :vm=rfc1048: - - - Set up a TFTP server (on same machine as bootp server) to provide - booting information to client. The name of this file is cfg.X.X.X.X - (or /tftpboot/cfg.X.X.X.X, it will try both) where X.X.X.X is the - IP address of the client. The contents of this file can be any valid - netboot commands. Under 2.0, netboot has the following commands: - - help - print help list - ip <X.X.X.X> - print/set client's IP address - server <X.X.X.X> - print/set bootp/tftp server address - netmask <X.X.X.X> - print/set netmask - hostname <name> - print/set hostname - kernel <name> - print/set kernel name - rootfs <ip:/fs> - print/set rootfilesystem - swapfs <ip:/fs> - print/set swapfilesystem - swapsize <size> - set diskless swapsize in Kbytes - diskboot - boot from disk - autoboot - continue boot process - - A typical completely diskless cfg file might contain: - - rootfs 192.1.2.3:/rootfs/myclient - swapfs 192.1.2.3:/swapfs - swapsize 20000 - hostname myclient.mydomain - - A cfg file for a machine with local swap might contain: - - rootfs 192.1.2.3:/rootfs/myclient - hostname myclient.mydomain - - - Ensure that your NFS server has exported the root (and swap if applicable) - filesystems to your client, and that the client has root access to these - filesystems - - A typical /etc/exports file might look like: - - (FreeBSD) - - /rootfs/myclient -maproot=0:0 myclient.mydomain - /swapfs -maproot=0:0 myclient.mydomain - - - (HP-UX) - - /rootfs/myclient -root=myclient.mydomain - /swapfs -root=myclient.mydomain - - - - If you are swapping over NFS (completely diskless configuration) create a - swap file for your client using touch. If your 'swapfs' command - has the argument /swapfs as in the example above, the swapfile for myclient - will be called /swapfs/swap.X.X.X.X where X.X.X.X is the client's IP addr. - - eg: # touch /swapfs/swap.192.1.2.4 - - - Unpack the root filesystem in the directory the client will use for its - root filesystem (/rootfs/myclient in the example above). - - *** On HP-UX systems: The server should be running HP-UX 9.04 or - later for HP9000/800 series machines. Prior versions don't allow - the creation of device files over NFS. - - *** When extracting /dev in /rootfs/myclient, beware that some systems - (HPUX) will not create device files that FreeBSD is happy with. - You may have to go to single user mode on the first bootup - (press control-c during the bootup phase), cd /dev and do a - "sh ./MAKEDEV all" from the client to fix this. - - - Run netboot.com on the client or make an EPROM from the netboot.rom file - - -Using Shared / and /usr filesystems ------------------------------------ -At present there isn't an officially sanctioned way of doing this, although -I have been using a shared /usr filesystem and individual / filesystems for -each client. If anyone has any suggestions on how to do this cleanly, please -let me and/or the core group know. - - - -Compiling netboot for specific setups -------------------------------------- - -Netboot can be compiled to support NE1000/2000 cards by changing the -configuration in /sys/i386/boot/netboot/Makefile. See the comments -at the top of this file. - - -Martin Renters martin@innovus.com |
