[OLUG] trying to set up a dumb terminal

[Drazak]

Bootdisk should work too, I just didnt have that option when I did it as
the Sparc's were floppyless too.  Should simplify things some..Ill see if
I can dig up that issue.

_Drew

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Adam Lassek wrote:

> No, I don't subscribe (although I probably will one of these days). Thank for
> the help. Wouldn't that require a bootrom, though? I don't have one, so I was
> planning on using a bootdisk
> 
> Drazak wrote:
> 
> > I did this about 2 years ago with an old diskless Sparc IPC.  Youll need
> > to set up tftpd and nfs.  The gist of it is you put the boot image for the
> > diskless machine in the tftp directory, then you link it to the diskless
> > machines MAC address in hex.  The diskless machine RARPS to get its IP,
> > downloads the image, boots of it, and nfs mounts a partition for itself.
> > It sounds hard, but it really wasnt bad.  I followed the diskless
> > workstation howto on linux.org and an article in the Linux Journal.  If
> > you are a subscriber, search online to get it.  If not, Ill dig up the old
> > issue and you can just have it.
> >
> > Of course, I then realized that a diskless IPC was worthless for about
> > anything other then the experience of getting it up and running :)
> >
> > _Drew
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> >
> > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> > >
> > > > I've got an old p200 laying around that I would like to have crunching
> > > > rc5 packs or something, but I don't have any hard drives for it. So, I'm
> > > > trying to set it up as a remote boot workstation, that will boot off of
> > > > my main computer over the network. The documentation to do this,
> > > > however, is less than clear. Since I'm sure there's at least a couple of
> > > > sysadmins here, I figured someone might be able to help.
> > >
> > > All I know is you need to setup tftp.  I think it would be easier to use a
> > > floppy to boot the thing then mount the root FS over NFS.
> > >
> > > > First of all: how do you configure dhcp?
> > >
> > > Use webmin to configure ISC's DHCP v2 server.  I have a working config
> > > file that you should be able to (mostly) drop in.
> > >
> > > --
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Phil Brutsche                                 pbrutsch at creighton.edu
> > >
> > > "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
> > > universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
> > >
> > >
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