Subject: diskless initialisation
To: port hp300 <port-hp300@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Andreas Brusinsky <brusinsk@inf.tu-dresden.de>
List: port-hp300
Date: 11/05/1996 02:57:38
How do I set up a server in the right way to boot a diskless client?
I can allready load the kernel but then a RPC to the server hangs
with:   nfs_boot: client_addr=0x8d4c6333
	nfs_boot: server_addr=0x8d4c0126  **** this is not the server
						address I wanted to have
						and I also did load
						the kernel from a different
						server(addr:0x8d4c6334)
        nfs_boot: hostname=  <here the kernel writes the name of my client>
        RPC timeout for server 0x84dc0126  **** which is clear because this
						is not the server under my
						hands


I do start rbootd, rarpd, rpc.bootparamd, mountd, nfsd -t -u 4 and have 
set up the files ehters, hosts, exports and bootparams.

I'm not sure what has to be in the /export/myclient/root directory
but did the things mentioned in the man-page 'diskless'.

The loading-process is also a little unstable and slow(HP-UX
boots its clusters with the same Hardware much faster), i.e.
the SYS_NBOOT procedure manages to get the IP-address and
the symbolic name everytime but has problems to find the
root file(sometimes it starts the loading only after the 3.
attempt to get it)

	Thanks 	Andreas