2007/7/29, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > am working through a netboot install onto a sparc64 machine and noticed > that netboot != pxeboot and want to determine the minimum requirements > for netbooting. > > so with netbooting it requires rarpd, tftp and NFS? not used to the NFS it also requires rpc.bootparamd > requirement when pxebooting and usually just have dhcpd running. not > much of a stretch to add the NFS stuff but am surprised that bsd.rd > isn't sufficient to get the system going. > > clues appreciated. your sparc64 requests its IP address via rarp, then gets the boot loader (boot.net) from your rarp server via tftp. The bootloader gets its root device from rpc.bootparamd and loads bsd(.rd) from there via NFS.
AFAIK this works mostly the same way on many OpenBSD architectures capable of netbooting, the thing which is often different is the way the boot loader is loaded (vax: mopd, sparc(64): rarpd, hp300: rbootd...). for more information, see diskless(8). > > cheers, > jake Sigi > > --
