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Configuring FreeBSD to run diskless Oct 15/1994
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1) 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 and
tftp services available.
2) Create a bootptab entry for the diskless FreeBSD machine.
sample entry:
diskless:\
:ht=ether:\
:ha=0000c01f848a:\
:sm=255.255.255.0:\
:hn:\
:ds=192.1.2.3:\
:ip=192.1.2.4:\
:vm=rfc1048:
3) Create a cfg.x.x.x.x file for your diskless machine. This is now an
ASCII file with netboot commands in it.
sample cfg.x.x.x.x:
hostname diskless.freebsd.com
rootfs server.freebsd.com:/var/rootfs/diskless
swapfs server.freebsd.com:/var/swap/diskless
4) On the server, export the root and swap filesystems to the client. This
usually involves putting them in the /etc/exports file and one some
machines running /usr/etc/exportfs -av
5) Make a BOOTROM by copying netboot.rom to an EPROM, or copy netboot.com to
a DOS diskette.
6) Boot the diskless machine and run netboot.com if you're using DOS.
Martin Renters martin@innovus.com
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