Article: 69964 of comp.sys.sun.admin Path: mri.mentorg.com!newsgw.mentorg.com!38.8.2.2.MISMATCH!38.8.70.2.MISMATCH!38.9.35.2.MISMATCH!psinntp!peerfeed.news.psi.net!howland.erols.net!hub1.ispnews.com!news14.ispnews.com.POSTED!michael From: "Michael Vilain " Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: How to boot Sun 3 mashine as diskless client ? Message-ID: References: <36F7D906.72D52839@uni-koeln.de> <36F8082F.A17FC77C@brockport.edu> <36F816A6.95C7D983@ndh.net> Organization: Certified Rolfer[R] X-Newsreader: MT-NewsWatcher 2.4.4 x-no-archive: yes Lines: 50 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.213.195.14 X-Trace: news14.ispnews.com 922238786 209.213.195.14 (Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:26:26 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:26:26 EST Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:26:26 -0800 Xref: mri.mentorg.com comp.sys.sun.admin:69964 In article <36F816A6.95C7D983@ndh.net>, Daniel Wetzler wrote: >Hallo, > >thanks for this useful hint. > >I tried to make an in.rarpd -a >then I started the rpcbootparamd. > >nothing happened..... :-( > > >I did`nt find a /etc/ethers file and wondering if I need one >to run rarpd. >If yes, how do I have to configure it ? Most definitely! The idealized network boot sequence is: client boot prom issues rarp request to host boot host returns ip address from rarpd's reading /etc/ethers or ethers map client boot prom issues tftp request boot host returns tftpd reading /tftpboot/IPADDR (linked to inetboot for arch) client runs inetboot which issues whoami to host boot host returns bootparamd's hostname from /etc/hosts or host map client's inetboot issues getfile to host boot host's bootparamd reads /etc/bootparams to get client's root location client's inetboot issues NFS mount of root filesystem on responding host client's inetboot opens and reads kernel of NFS mounted root So the boot server has to be on the same segment as the client (or the server is multi-homed). The load server can be on another net or can be on the same system as the boot server. Configuration files: /etc/hosts /etc/ethers /etc/dfs/dfstab (to serve the root filesystems) /etc/bootparams /tftpboot/IPADDR -> inetboot for specific architecture and OS HTH, /MeV/ -- Michael Vilain, Certified Rolfer(R) rolfer@vilain.com http://www.vilain.com