port-vax: Re: new, improved(?) deqna/delqa netboot available

Subject: Re: new, improved(?) deqna/delqa netboot available
To: J. Buck Caldwell <buck_c@polygon.com>
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roar_Thron=E6s?= <roart@nvg.ntnu.no>
List: port-vax
Date: 08/21/1998 20:06:57

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:

> Roar Thronæs wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:
> >
> > > Could you give a little more specifics about the /etc/bootptab? I'm trying to
> > > netboot a KA650/DELQA with the old way (and a UVII boardset), and having
> > > problems.
> >
> > Nothing special, just using the usual entries: ds, sm, gw, ha, ip, rp.
> > I am not sure whether ds is needed.
> >
> > Have you used tcpdump, and seen how far you got?
> >
> > -Roar Thronæs
> 
> So, I'm guessing that you and I have a slightly different definition of
> "specifics." I have never USED bootp, nor looked at bootptab. An example would help
> immensely.

A minimal bootptab is

tigern:ha=08.00.2b.06.df.46:ip=129.241.210.105:gw=129.241.210.65: \
        sm=255.255.255.192:rp=/usr/local/tftpboot

Bootptab is only usable with the boot.mopformat from
ftp.nvg.ntnu.no:/pub/NetBSD/DEQNA/v1.2, and only until I can get
bootparams to work again.

-Roar Thronæs