Subject: Re: MicroVax II netbooting
To: bart sikkes <b.sikkes@student.utwente.nl>
From: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/10/2000 08:47:16
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, bart sikkes wrote:
> Isn't the bootparamd the same as bootp ?
Nope. Very different. Somewhat similar in concept, but not at all a
replacement for BOOTP/DHCP.
> And if we use the BOOTP do we still need bootparamd?
Nope.
> This is all new to me
> now, because the HOWTO said we had to use the bootparamd and said nothing
> about BOOTP. But that was a HOWTO that used files from NetBSD-1.3.2.
Yes, it's very outdated. Almost to the point of being useless, except for
maybe gleening the general high level flow of what needs to happen.
-brian.