Re: booting an apple g4 from network
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:56 +0100, Jan-David Salchow wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>
> > There are several ways.
>
> > The first issue you'll encounter is the DHCP problem. Apple firmware
> > will happily DHCP to obtain an IP address and TFTP down a file if you
> > tell it to do so explicitely (providing the server address and file name
> > explicitely, via OF command line or environment variables in flash).
> > However, it will not accept a server address & file name to retreive
> > from the DHCP server (fully auto-netboot, aka "n" key) unless the server
> > has some Apple extensions. In order to get those, you had to patch it,
> > though I've been told recent dhcpd's may have that included now,
> > provided you have the right option in the config file of the server. I
> > don't know the details as I never use that capability, I always specify
> > the file explicitely.
>
> this is exactly what i want to do. so i tried it with the following
> dhcpd.conf, but it doesn't work. Any ideas?
I don't know. I remember suceeding with a patched dhcp server a long
time ago but that's pretty much all. You'd have to google around I'm
afraid, maybe compare the old patches to what's in the current dhcp
server, that sort of thing ...
Ben.
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