Subject: Re: what do i need to netboot?
To: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
From: Erno Palonheimo <esp@cc.hut.fi>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/25/2000 03:05:05
Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com> writes:

> "J. Buck Caldwell" <buckaroo@igps.org> gave an /etc/dhcpd.conf
> file, from which I excerpt:
> 
> > host bootclient {
> >         hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:0e:c2:ea;
> >         fixed-address 192.168.0.2;
> >         option root-path "/usr/export/bootclient";
> > }
> 
> Mine also has a line
>     filename "netbsd";
> 
> If you don't have that, how does it know what file to boot from?

By default the booter tries to boot "netbsd", iirc.

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