well i was bored so i decided to figure out how to netboot a powermac, heres how:
install bootpd (for debian apt-get install bootp)
install tftpd (for debian apt-get install tftpd)
edit /etc/inetd.conf as required you should have these two lines:
bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd -i -t 120
tftp dgram udp wait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
/tftpboot
now edit /etc/bootptab, you should have an entry like this:
socrates:\
hd=/tftpboot:\
bf=yaboot:\
ip=192.168.0.1:\
sm=255.255.255.0:\
sa=192.168.0.4:\
ha=000502F1ABBB:
notice the fscking backslashes, i forgot the one after socrates: which
makes it fail in obscure ways.
change the ip addresses and netmask to match your site. the hardware
address is annoying, but required. the way i found it out was to
simple try and netboot the mac and looked in the logs and found:
Sep 8 23:50:37 plato bootpd[15289]: unknown client Ethernet address
00:05:02:F1:AB:BB
(if you don't get any message like this try adding -d to the bootps
line in /etc/inetd.conf) now you know the MAC address so you can add
it to /etc/bootptab.
in /tftpboot i have the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ls -l /tftpboot/
total 2173
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2155419 Sep 8 22:19 vmlinux-2.2.17
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 56828 Sep 8 22:19 yaboot
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 144 Sep 9 00:05 yaboot.conf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$
now last but not least edit /tftpboot/yaboot.conf:
device=enet:
partition=0
timeout=50
init-message="Debian GNU/Linux"
default=linux
image=vmlinux-2.2.17
label=linux
root=/dev/hda3
read-only
now save all changes reboot the mac while holding down the `n' key and
you should get a yaboot prompt. add ramdisk images just like you
would on a disk based yaboot bootstrap:
image=vmlinux-2.2.17
label=linux
initrd=root.bin
initrd-size=8192
i will post these instructions on my web page soon for future use
since i don't know of any other site that explains in sufficient
detail how to netboot macs.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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