Re: bootp or nfsboot

[no-exit <no-exit@plunge.net>]

I am not sure of the current status of the debian-mips port to R5k, but
you can use either bootp or DHCP to tranfer the kernel.
It's very easy with DHCP and is explained in the unix man page, just
search for the "filename" option. 
Basically all you need to to is set the filename option to the name of
the bootp filename; here is an example of my dhcpd.conf:

subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 {
# --- default gateway
        option routers                  10.0.0.1;
        option subnet-mask              255.0.0.0;
        range dynamic-bootp 10.0.0.40 10.0.0.50;
        default-lease-time 21600;
        max-lease-time 43200;
# Entry for the Indy!

        host wopr {
                always-reply-rfc1048 on;
                hardware ethernet 08:00:69:06:c5:55;
                fixed-address 10.0.0.222;
                option subnet-mask 255.0.0.0;
                option host-name "wopr";
                option domain-name-servers 4.18.53.100;
                option routers  10.0.0.1;
                filename "tftpboot.img";
        }
}

Just make sure that tftp is running and working.

On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 21:17, Luis Barrientos wrote:
> I want to install debian woody stable on my indy R5000 but I don't know if
> it uses bootp or nfsboot to boot from the network, also I don't know if it
> nedds to be ruuning dhcpd to get the ip adress, also I'll like to know i
> there's anybody running debian on a similar machine.
> 
> all
> 
> thank you very much
> 
> 
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