> 
> Hi !

Hello....

> > Anyone have a sample bootparams file that I could copy?  I was reading
> > in the vax netboot guide, and tried that one, but it just did not
> > quite seem to work when I poked in my server name.  What exactly
> > does a working bootparams file look like?  I am sure it is something
> > trivially stupid on my part that I botched.

Also, since Michael posted his for Linux based bootserving, and
I am trying to get a sun3 NetBSD box to so same, can someone, for
the sake of discussion add the NetBSD particulars.  They seem to
be enough different from the Linux particulars to count.

I am sure others will find the information useful, since what is in
the netbootguides here and there seems a little outdated.  Although
the principles are the same, sometimes exact differences get in the
way, and I have not got sun3 trained well enough to artificially
intelligize inexactitudes.... or somesuch.....(:+}}.....

Also, perhaps this info should be included in the INSTALL guides
for particular machines.  That would save having to run all over
finding the right guides here and there the next day...

Thanks All!

Bob Keys

> This is mine: (/etc/bootparams)

> And, when we're doin' it, here are the according /etc/exports lines:
 
> the hostnames are in /etc/hosts (192.168.177.12-15)

> and in this /etc/ethers:

> rarp entries are set with "rarp -f" from /etc/ethers

In NetBSD, the rarp is demon run and will it require a manual
invocation at the start to initialize entries?

> My installation:


> VAX /etc/fstab looks like this:
> 
> zeus:/usr/vax/ares              /       nfs     rw,auto 0 0
> zeus:/usr/vax/usr               /usr    nfs     rw,auto 0 0
> /proc                           /proc   procfs  rw,auto 0 0
> /swap                           none    swap    sw,auto 0 0
> zeus:/home                      /home   nfs     rw,auto 0 0
> 
> Running daemons: rpc.bootparamd, rpc.nfsd, rpc.mountd, and the
> portmapper of course.
> This is a Linux installation, but i think, other systems are similar.
> Hope, some more can use this.
> Some systems have a "rarpd" for the rarp thing, Linux has that in kernel
> as i know.