From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Wed 29 Sep 1999 - 12:29:02 IST
Dave Airlie spoke thusly:
>If you have an x86 Linux box netbooting is pretty simple, you copy a file
>into /tftpboot, you make sure you have rarp support in the kernel you set
>the rarp, you make a link to the file in /tftpboot and you do boot net on
>the Sun, if you only have Solaris boxes around you it's harder for some
>reason ...
right. rarp. not bootp. in 4.2 you used bootp+rarp, in 6.0 just rarp.
it took about 5 minutes to set up including reading the docs.
it's the rhl-install-guide-en package, but the relevant parts can
be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/manuals/RHL-6.0-Manual/install-guide/manual/doc123.html#sF.5.3
i used the ramdisk install method since it didn't required mucking with
nfs. you still need to set up rarp though my quick skim of the page
(and the rarp setup link) seems to imply it's just needed for nfs
based installs.
liam, i'm not sure which version you installed with, but these
instructions seemed pretty clear to me - even offering a perl one
liner to spew the right filename for tftp.
kevin
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