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Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>> This is an R30 (c. 4 years old?) BTW do you know a good HOWTO for
>>
>> booting from memory key, i.e. setting it up?
>>   
>
> It isn't very hard.
>
> 1) you must put an MBR on the key and it must list the NetBSD
>   partition as the active partition.
> 2) disklabel, newfs, and installboot the thing, and it all should
>   "just work"...
>
>>>> I guess I can try a netboot from my other laptop, once
>>>> I read through the howtos and get it set up.
>>>>       
>>>
>>> That's pretty easy to set up. You don't even actually need to set up
>>> NFS -- you can just directly netboot an INSTALL kernel from tftp.
>>>     
>>
> To do what I just suggested:
>
> 1) You'll need to set up something like this in your dhcpd.conf to get
>   dhcpd to answer with a different boot file during the initial stage
>   and during the stage when the pxe loaded boot loader runs:
>
> host install {
>       hardware ethernet 0:11:43:cd:bb:ca;
>       fixed-address 10.0.0.76;
>
>       # This section allows dhcpd to respond with different answers
>       # for the two tftp requests for the bootloader and kernel.
>
>       if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) =
>       "PXEClient:Arch:00000" {
>
>               # This bootloader sets video console
>               filename "pxeboot_ia32.bin";
>
>       } else {
>               # This is the name of the kernel image to load:
>               filename "tftp:netbsd";
>       }
> }
>
> and you will need a /tftpboot/ directory that looks like:
>
> $ ls -l /tftpboot/
> total 2810
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2808659 Mar 25 14:59 netbsd
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    41784 Mar 25 14:59 pxeboot_ia32.bin
>
> and you will need a tftp line in your inetd.conf like this:
>
> tftp            dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/libexec/tftpd   
> tftpd -l -s /tftpboot
>
> With this setup, you can simply load an INSTALL kernel over the
> net, which is pretty easy.
>
> Perry

Thanks Perry - excellent.

Meanwhile, I have had some success with the other options. I came home 
armed with a USB floppy drive (thanks Perry for the advice), a NetBSD 
3.0_BETA iso coutesy of Matthias (BSD-Crew.de) (thanks Steve for 
suggesting that), and a network cable.

Well, I went to try the floppy boot first but when I booted it I found 
it was a BIOS upgrade disk that I had prepared earlier (but couldn't use 
without a floppy drive!) so I went ahead with that. Then I installed 
from the 3.0_BETA iso, and it was all good, so I'm not sure if it was 
the BIOS upgrade or just the 3.0_BETA that did the trick.

Only problem so far is a miniature display in X... it was the right size 
at first but bad resolution so I did a xf86cfg. Resolution improved but 
as I said, the whole display is the size of a normal window now. I am 
googling this now, but if anyone cares to chime in...

Thanks again to all who helped on this.

- Ja'far





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Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>> This is an R30 (c. 4 years old?) BTW do you know a good HOWTO for
>>
>>booting from memory key, i.e. setting it up?
>>    
>>
>
>It isn't very hard.
>
>1) you must put an MBR on the key and it must list the NetBSD
>   partition as the active partition.
>2) disklabel, newfs, and installboot the thing, and it all should
>   "just work"...
>
>  
>
>>>>I guess I can try a netboot from my other laptop, once
>>>>I read through the howtos and get it set up.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>That's pretty easy to set up. You don't even actually need to set up
>>>NFS -- you can just directly netboot an INSTALL kernel from tftp.
>>>      
>>>
>To do what I just suggested:
>
>1) You'll need to set up something like this in your dhcpd.conf to get
>   dhcpd to answer with a different boot file during the initial stage
>   and during the stage when the pxe loaded boot loader runs:
>
>host install {
>       hardware ethernet 0:11:43:cd:bb:ca;
>       fixed-address 10.0.0.76;
>
>       # This section allows dhcpd to respond with different answers
>       # for the two tftp requests for the bootloader and kernel.
>
>       if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) =
>       "PXEClient:Arch:00000" {
>
>               # This bootloader sets video console
>               filename "pxeboot_ia32.bin";
>
>       } else {
>               # This is the name of the kernel image to load:
>               filename "tftp:netbsd";
>       }
>}
>
>and you will need a /tftpboot/ directory that looks like:
>
>$ ls -l /tftpboot/
>total 2810
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2808659 Mar 25 14:59 netbsd
>-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    41784 Mar 25 14:59 pxeboot_ia32.bin
>
>and you will need a tftp line in your inetd.conf like this:
>
>tftp            dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/libexec/tftpd   tftpd -l -s /tftpboot
>
>With this setup, you can simply load an INSTALL kernel over the
>net, which is pretty easy.
>
>
>Perry
>  
>
Thanks Perry - excellent.

Meanwhile, I have had some success with the other options. I came home 
armed with a USB floppy drive (thanks Perry for the advice), a NetBSD 
3.0_BETA iso coutesy of Matthias (BSD-Crew.de) (thanks Steve for 
suggesting that), and a network cable.

Well, I went to try the floppy boot first but when I booted it I found 
it was a BIOS upgrade disk that I had prepared earlier (but couldn't use 
without a floppy drive!) so I went ahead with that. Then I installed 
from the 3.0_BETA iso, and it was all good, so I'm not sure if it was 
the BIOS upgrade or just the 3.0_BETA that did the trick.

Only problem so far is a miniature display in X... it was the right size 
at first but bad resolution so I did a xf86cfg. Resolution improved but 
as I said, the whole display is the size of a normal window now. I am 
googling this now, but if anyone cares to chime in...

Thanks again to all who helped on this.

- Ja'far





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