Re: Installing Potato with tftp on UDB

[Bart-Jan Vrielink <bartjan@vrielink.net>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Damien Curtain wrote:

> > I finally found some time to try to re-install Linux on my Multia. Today I
> > tried to use tftp/bootp to boot the Potato tftpboot.img.
> > The server is running Potato/i386.
> > 
> > I have dhcpd installed (already use it to serve a few dhcp clients) and
> > did a apt-get install tftpd. I have added 'allow bootp' to the subnet and
> > host part of my dhcpd.conf:
> > subnet 10.2.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> >   allow bootp;
> >   host centauri {
> >     hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:e4:41:27;
> >     option domain-name "vrielink.net";
> >     fixed-address centauri.vrielink.net;
> >     allow bootp;
> >   }
> > }
> 
> shouldnt you specify the option:
> 
> 	filename "/your/kernel";
> 
> also try with boot ewa0 -proto bootp -flags i

Thanks. Using both the filename statement and the -proto bootp line
solved my problem. Shouldn't this be added to the installation manual
(paragraphs 6.5.1 and 6.5.3) ??

-- 
Tot ziens,

Bart-Jan