Re: tftpboot.img
netboot is for intel comps only... i need somthing for a sparc..
etherboot is for creating floppies... my sun doesn't have a
floppy, hence the netboot...
I guess it just isn't somthing a person can do.
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Jason Pepas wrote:
> > Is there a boot image that's around 64k?
> > netBSD has a two stage system where a 64k boot image is
> > loaded. This image then loads the kernel/rootfs over
> > NFS.
> >
> > Is there such a thing for debian?
> >
> > If anyone could help, i'd really appreciate it.
> >
> > ~Aaron Vose
> > avose@cs.utk.edu
>
> sounds like you are looking for etherboot or netboot.
>
> here is an excerpt from http://jason.pepas.com/linux/notes/diskless.txt
>
> ---
> Diskless Node Bootdisk:
> ---
>
> If using netboot:
>
> On the nfs server, run
>
> apt-get install netboot
> makerom
>
> This will make image.flo and image.rom.
> Image.flo is for floppies and image.rom is
> for burning to a bootrom.
>
> Write image.flo to a floppy with
>
> dd if=image.flo of=/dev/fd0
>
> If using Etherboot:
>
> go to http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/distribution.html
> and grab the latest production release, and the documentation if you like.
>
> then:
>
> tar xzvf etherboot-x.x.x.tar.gz
> cd src
> make bin32/card.dsk
>
> where card is the name of your card, ie, rtl8139.dsk.
> grep the Makefile for card names.
>
> your floppy image will be in src/bin32, named card.dsk.
> Write it to floppy:
>
> cat card.dsk > /dev/fd0
>
> -jason pepas
>
>
>
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