I'm willing to do the documentation legwork. I've got
some suggestions so far from some good folks, but I'd
like to look at what you have. I haven't actually
started the work required to boot it yet either but I
have a better starting point.

So far, I think the most efficient way to do it is to
give the very basic steps of what is needed, a server
with this that and the other set up, a kernel with
this and that set up, and a boot disk with yada yada
set up, and then give the obligatory RTFMs for each
specific step. I did some RTFM on diskless and the
related subjects in there, but I became confused
because it's all so different depending on what
platform you are talking about. Plus, I've never
(knowingly) netbooted something in my life so that
doesn't help any either.

Now, I'm hoping that the thing will run semi reliably
in multi-user mode because that's what makes this all
worthwhile. It would also be nice to know if it can be
rebooted from remote by just keeping the boot disk in
there or whatever. I don't think I've seen that one
answered yet either... Both of these will be pretty
important to any major use of the dreamcast with
NetBSD.

(I probably should do a little reading at the Linux
site too, but I haven't because this NetBSD stuff is
much cooler :).

Andy

--- Andy Michaels <lego@apollo.gti.net> wrote:
> 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;
> > >}
> > 
> > 
> 


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