Subject: Re: Help with netboot install of 1.5
To: B. James Phillippe <bryan@terran.org>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/10/2001 21:30:08
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> My bootptab file read as:
>
> netbsd.alpha:\
> :hd=/var/net/tftpd:bf=netbsd.alpha:\
> :ht=ethernet:ha=0000f82341ab:vm=rfc1048:\
> :ip=192.168.216.5:bs=auto:
>
> And I copied "netbsd.alpha" from the root dir of the CD (CD #2) into
> /var/net/tftpd on my server.
>
> I have read all the docos I can find, but I cannot find the solution. Am I
> doing something silly?
I think so - the kernel is not the bootfile, the bootfile is supposed to
be the boot loader "netboot".
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Michael L. Hitch mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University Bozeman, MT USA