Subject: Re: DISKLESS
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E5llen?= <pollen@astrakan.hig.se>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/19/1999 12:08:47
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E5llen?= wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > =09Do you have DHCP, BOOTP, or BOOTPARAMS enabled in the kernel,
> > =09and the appropriate servers running on another host?
> 
> I think I have so. And I just realized that no request is sent from the
> "diskless" machine, no traffic indicated on the hub. The DISKLESS kernel
> says it should be able to be started from floppy, but it seems like the
> NIC never gets initialized with rarp. Rarpd doesn't report any requests.
> (And no flashing on the hub, so how could there be any request? doh!)

Does it also need a

   config netbsd root on ? type nfs

in the kernel config file?


Cheers,

Patrick