Hi, I have been reading all the recent posts about netbooting.  I have
been (sluggishly) putting together part 2 of the HOWTO, but it looks like
folks need it now.  Would anyone else be interested in finishing up the
second part of the HOWTO, or even rewriting the whole thing?
If not, I'll get around to it... eventually :(

Andy

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On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Paul Timmins wrote:

> It should be noted that if you don't want to set a static IP address for 
> your BBA at all,  you can simply hardcode the mac address of your dreamcast 
> to some nonsense IP on the local lan and then copy to that. The IP loader 
> just listens for any packets coming to its mac address, but with no 
> hardcoded IP it will not reply to ARP requests, so if you hardcode the 
> IP/MAC combination it will work fine.
> -Paul
> 
> At 10:10 AM 12/5/2001, you wrote:
> >[snip]
> > > Do I have to use dhcp? What if I have a static address
> > > for the dreamcast in my 192.168.xxx.xxx network?
> >
> >   You need dhcp server to tell your dreamcast where the file system to
> >mount is.  Please note that you want to give fixed address to your DC
> >when you use IPslave.  To setup IP address, you need to run "Broadband
> >Passport", which comes with BbA.
> >
> >   Here are steps I take usally:
> >
> >  0. setup dhcp server and nfs server.
> >  1. boot IPslave from CD-R.
> >  2. cat netbsd > /p/tcp/dreamcast/4711
> >  3. kernel starts. After driver messages, it asks you about root FS.
> >     Type as follows:
> >
> >root device: rtk0
> >dump device:                                  (just return)
> >file system (default generic): nfs
> >
> >
> >   for dhcp server, my dhcpd.conf has a section like:
> >
> >host sonic {
> >     hardware ethernet xx:yy:zz:aa:bb:cc;
> >     option host-name "sonic";
> >     fixed-address x.y.z.w
> >     next-server nfs-server-name;
> >     option root-path "/u0/work/current/dreamcast/dist";
> >#   option root-path "/u1/proj/dreamcast/hpcsh-coff-root";
> >     option dhcp-max-message-size 1024;
> >     option broadcast-address x.y.z.255;
> >     option routers x.y.z.1;
> >     option domain-name "my.domain";
> >     option domain-name-servers x.y.z.1;
> >}
> 
>