Re: Yaboot & tftp Boot
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 06:45:34PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2000, FASSINO Jean-Philippe
> <jeanphilippe.fassino@cnet.francetelecom.fr> wrote:
>
> >Does i must use bootp or can i assign server IP directly on yaboot.conf ??
>
> You must use bootp since the IP must be configured to be able to retreive
> yaboot.conf via TFTP. It is possible to use a local yaboot/yaboot.conf
> doing tftp for the kernel, and in this case, it could be interesting to
> configure the IP directly in yaboot.conf. However, I don't know if it can
> be done with OF (we are using OF built-in bootp/tftp).
>
> Ben.
there is OF variables for IP address do these not work? (ive never
tried it, i get a really icky feeling about installing tftp on my
other workstation ;-))
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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